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]]>A fire that erupted over the weekend on a military ship that was officially extinguished on Thursday, with the cause of the days-long blaze still unknown, according to the Navy.
All known fires on the USS Bonhomme Richard have been put out, four days after the flames first erupted on Sunday, Rear Admiral Philip Sobeck, Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Three said in a statement. The extent of the damage, as well as what started the fire, is still unknown.
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“This was a Navy team effort. We had support from the air and sea,” Sobeck’s statement said. “Three helicopter squadrons conducted more than 1,500 water bucket drops, fighting the fire and cooling the super structure and flight deck enabling fire crews to get onboard to fight the fire.”
By Monday, 17 sailors and four civilians were injured, but Sobeck said on Thursday that 63 people — 40 Navy sailors and 23 civilians — have been treated for minor injuries, including heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
Authorities are still working to confirm that there are no more active fires aboard the vessel and will begin an investigation into what happened to start the fire. Sobeck told reporters Monday morning that initial reports indicated that pressurization caused the explosions, but did not elaborate on the details.
The Bonhomme Richard is an amphibious assault ship, which works to deploy elements of a Marine landing force. San Diego became home to the ship in 2018 after it was docked for six years in Japan, according to the U.S. Naval Institute.
Krishna Jackson, public affairs officer for Naval Base San Diego, told NBC San Diego Sunday that the ship had undergone a regular maintenance cycle before the fire was reported.
The ship’s future is unknown, Sobeck said, as the Navy assesses how badly the fire impaired the USS Bonhomme Richard.
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A nurse checks on a sailor aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
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Widespread screening on the Navy’s coronavirus-stricken carrier has exposed a bulk of the validated cases are asymptomatic– showing how the bug can spread by “stealth” among the young and otherwise-healthy, according to authorities.
The outcomes on the USS Theodore Roosevelt could raise policy questions around how to safely reopen the country, officials said.
” It has actually exposed a new dynamic of this virus: that it can be brought by normal, healthy people who have no idea whatsoever that they are carrying it,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated during a Thursday look on NBC’s “Today.”
About 94%of the 4,800- member team has actually now been tested for the virus.
An overall of 60%of 600 confirmed ill sailors aboard the boat have not shown any signs yet, the Navy discovered. The service didn’t hypothesize regarding the number of those patients might later fall ill.
Tests in the United States have mainly been scheduled for more severely ill patients, making it hard to assess the variety of ill asymptomatic cases still out there.
” With regard to COVID-19, we’re finding out that stealth in the kind of asymptomatic transmission is this foe’s secret power,” said Back Admiral Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the Navy.
The Navy’s outcomes are greater than previous estimates from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergic Reaction and Infectious Illness, who forecast that anywhere in between 25-50%of individuals who contract the virus will reveal no symptoms.
The coronavirus break out on the Theodore Roosevelt ended up being a lightning rod for debate after its captain, Brett Crozier, raised an alarm to Navy brass that was leaked to journalism.
He was eased of his command as an outcome, and the Navy’s acting Secretary, Thomas Modly, then resigned after saying Crozier was either “too ignorant or too dumb” for the job.
With Post wires
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