Fire on the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford Raged for Hours, Sailors Say

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Fire on the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford Raged for Hours, Sailors Say - SLRPNK

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?

About as good as one expects out of a Ford.

Well, some of them are built so that the ship’s main laundry area doesn’t catch fire at all.