NYT reports that one of the US aircraft carriers has to withdraw to port due to a laundry room fire. About 600 sailors lost access to their bunks.
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities and quickly spread. Sailors battled the blaze for more than 30 hours, officials and sailors said.
The Navy did not respond to a request for comment. Central Command said in its statement that the fire caused “no damage to the ship’s propulsion plant, and the aircraft carrier remains fully operational.”
Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that U.S. aircraft carriers aren’t safe.
Was this U.S. aircraft carrier safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
The ones that are safe?
Yeah, the ones the vent doesn’t catch fire
THere’s nothing out there… there’s just sailors, and dirty laundry, and no bedding… and a fire.
Nice #TheFrontFellOff homage
Well, are there any design constraints? What are they?
Well, non-flammable vents for one thing
Or maintaining vent filter cleaning schedules.
This happens in homes as well. I knew a family who lived in a semi-remote Ontario area whose 2 yr old house burned to the ground because someone put a load into the dryer, then left for work. By the time the volunteer fire dept got there it was too late.
I just noticed your display name. Nice.
The whole profile, even!
Well, now that you point that out, I notice that most of their comments are playing on the theme. lol. Must surely be a multi, or maybe they just don’t say much, but that is crazy. And fun. :)
It’s a great pleasure. Thank you.
I’ll call you a cab, shall I?
About as good as one expects out of a Ford.
This is hilarious for the way it makes clear that he was never helping her whatsoever, lmao. He entirely vanishes in his way, the lass barely moves. Seems like a metaphor or something, idk.
Well, some of them are built so that the ship’s main laundry area doesn’t catch fire at all.
At least the front didn’t fall off.
yet
We think Americans are unsafe dude. Since the boats are crewed by them it’s probably too late to be concerned about this.
I’m not saying it wasn’t safe. It’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.
None of them are safe to the rest of us. Their operators would turn on any of us, on a dime.
I think you misunderstood what I said, Senator Collins. It’s the people that are the problem tp us and while it might be a wisecrack right here, it’s the truth in reality.
There have also been reports of sailors flushing all sorts of things down toilets to clog them. These guys are doing everything they can to sabotage their ships and get out of there.
They have been on the boat for 260 some odd days.
They tie the post vietnam record on april 15.
Well the good thing is they at least have a clear goal to achieve then they can go home… right… I mean it would be a form of hell to serve endlessly in a conflict no one wants running missions that are just as likely warcrimes than not while your likely being told that everyone will be home soon.
Gee its almost like this was not well planed.
They wouldn’t need to do that much either. The sewerage system was a new vacuum-based system that was supposed to be more efficient, but ended up being very finicky/fragile, and on top of that, was undersized for the demands of the crew, since it was designed around the average usage on a ship, rather than the peak usage.
So when everyone decides they want to go to the WC and have a shower after a shift, the thing would back up because it couldn’t keep up.
Apparently, careless smoking is not a uniquely Eastern European thing. Or perhaps someone decided to frag their ship (just a little bit, not badly).
From the article:
The U.S. military’s Central Command said two sailors received treatment for “non-life-threatening injuries.” People on the ship reported that dozens of service members suffered smoke inhalation.
And in the category of non-life-threatening, but still not ideal, many sailors have not been able to do laundry since the fire.
The ship, along with its 4,500 sailors and fighter pilots, was in the Mediterranean on Oct. 24 when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered it to steam to the Caribbean to add weight to President Trump’s pressure campaign on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader before his seizure.
From the Caribbean, the carrier rushed to the Middle East for the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which is now in its third week.
Speaking to sailors on board aircraft carriers is difficult in the best of circumstances. During a war, the ships and military bases involved in operations go “dark,” limiting the ability of service members to communicate with the outside world. The officials and sailors interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The Ford is now entering its 10th month of deployment. It will break the record for longest post-Vietnam War carrier deployment if it is still at sea in mid-April. That record, at 294 days, was set by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2020.
Crew members on the Ford have been told that their deployment will probably be extended into May, which would put them at an entire year at sea, twice the length of a normal aircraft carrier deployment.
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities and quickly spread. Sailors battled the blaze for more than 30 hours, officials and sailors said.
That’s actually pretty likely.
Sailors will smoke anywhere they can, but in a laundry room it’s gonna be clogged dryer vents.
I’d bet on it actually being a dryer fire. The timing though, yeah, it makes me think that maybe it was on purpose. Sure, it happens sometimes. It isn’t that strange. However, that’s what makes it the perfect target for sabotage.
Most military personnel don’t agree with invading random nations. Most joined to have a decent job that takes them out of a bad situation, and they get college paid for. At most, they joined for the idea of “defending the nation” (which is why the DoD was named that, as propoganda, and why I think the DoW is more honest and better).
Go check your dryer vents, people
Back in the day, I had a roommate in her late 20s, that didn’t even know there was a dryer screen, let alone know to empty it. I spent months wondering why my least-linty clothes were still filling up the screen… My wife spent months wondering why it took 3 cycles to dry her stuff… The landlord spent hours cleaning out the dangerously blocked duct.
Clean your filters after every use, peeps!
I’m really glad my dryer vent goes into a vertical chimney, because my wife never cleans out the trap. I stick a boroscope up it every few years to confirm that there’s no buildup, and so far it’s been pristine.
Great advice, cleaned mine out this past weekend.
So, an Iranian drone probably hit it. But they’re of course never admitting that
What are the odds it’s self sabotage in an attempt to force the ship to leave.
Someone really wanted to go home. I don’t blame them. These ships are no longer practical in drone warfare
it can’t always be friendly fire, so this time it is a dryer fire.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the US military is a paper tiger just as Russia. Not to the same extent but I’d bet there’s just as much rot and corruption under the hood.
Because they had a dryer catch fire, and despite that, the ship is still combat ready?
I get that you’re not a fan of the US military, but this is just silly.
“Combat Ready” as reported by Pete the Kegstand King, from his freshly laundered, empty suit.
It isn’t, provided the soldiers give a shit about the mission, which given that the carrier has been at sea doing stunts for trump for twice as long as that crew was supposed to be deployed, they absolutely do not give a shit. I’m 50/50 on coverup vs self sabotage on this one.
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Story says it’s from March 16th. The post seems to be made either on the 16th or the 17th. Seems pretty not old to me.
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Yes? What are you trying to tell me here? That’s a different article. With different information. That’s kind of how news works. Sometimes new articles are written with new information about topics.
They are thinking about when the shitters backed up. (honestly this might be all due to this ship also being on track for the longest ever deployment in us history).
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