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Firefighters combat a blaze aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego, July 14, 2020. (Jessica Paulauskas/U.S. Navy)
The Navy has hired a cadre of fire marshals to evaluate firefighting training and protocols in ports and shipyards in response to the devastating fire last year aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, the commander of Naval Surface Forces said Thursday.
“They re out there, ensuring that the waterfront maintenance people, along with the private contractor, and the ship s crew are doing their proper safety inspection,” Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener said during a conference call with reporters.
The amphibious assault ship was undergoing maintenance at Naval Base San Diego when it caught fire July 12, 2020. The blaze seared through 11 of the ship’s 14 decks, destroyed its forward mast and damaged the superstructure before being put out four days later.
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Published July 19. 2021 12:05AM
Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO In the four years since two deadly ship collisions rocked the U.S. Navy, the service has been looking for ways to address problems in the fleet that its own investigators said contributed to the deaths of 17 sailors.
Former senior Navy officials have said their warnings about poor maintenance, shoddy technology and a relentless pace of ship deployments went unheeded for years before the 2017 collisions of the guided-missile destroyers Fitzgerald and McCain with container ships, just weeks apart.
Now the Navy is trying to address some of those issues with a new 130,000 square-foot surface ship training center on Naval Base San Diego. The center, the first of two that are planned, is preparing to graduate its first class of surface warfare officers. The $40 million Mariner Skills Training Center Pacific will be fully up and running by the end of the year, according to the center’s commanding office