Fire on nuclear-powered submarine at Maine shipyard injures 6

[NHSparky]

I find it interesting that it was a vac.  I thought SY vac's were designed not to do that, like maybe even air operated?

 

Depends on what it was used for, and if the cord was grounded, who it belonged to, etc.

This (at least to me) opens more questions than it answers.

[DefiantSix]

New fire (at least this one wasn't aboard a sub).

Minor fire extinguished on USS George H.W. Bush
Published June 07, 2012 | Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va. –  The Navy says a minor fire broke...

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[Mike220]

New fire (at least this one wasn't aboard a sub).

Bush's fault. Question is did the BFEE MIHOP or LIHOP?

[NHSparky]

As long as the damage isn't structural in nature (i.e., the major cost was equipment) I can see where they'll try to put her back together, otherwise, she's a huge pile of unusable HY-80.

I look at what they did with the San Francisco (aka "Frankenboat") but it's so hard to say if the hull on Miami was weakened by the fire.

[zeitgeist]

As long as the damage isn't structural in nature (i.e., the major cost was equipment) I can see where they'll try to put her back together, otherwise, she's a huge pile of unusable HY-80.

I look at what they did with the San Francisco (aka "Frankenboat") but it's so hard to say if the hull on Miami was weakened by the fire.

This just in ...  as they use to say in the news business:

KITTERY, Maine — Navy investigators said something hot was sucked into a vacuum cleaner that subsequently caused the fire aboard the USS Miami on May 23, causing $400 million in damage.

Moreover, the Navy said in statement released Friday, the vacuum cleaner should have been emptied. Navy Public Affairs said shipyards “are directed to empty...vacuum cleaners each shift or remove them from the ship.”

According to a statement released by the public affairs office at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the fire started with a “heat source” that was vacuumed up, “igniting debris in the vacuum cleaner.”

The vacuum, a shop vacuum “you would find in a typical shop environment,” was unplugged at the time.

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Link to local rag:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120608-NEWS-120609720

Also on Navy link : http://www.navy.mil/submi...isplay.asp?story_id=67636

[zeitgeist]

Updated information:

Suspect Charged in Connection with USS Miami Fire

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Story Number: NNS120723-05Release Date: 7/23/2012 12:10:00 PM
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From Defense Media Activity - Navy


PORTLAND, Maine (NNS) -- The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has made an arrest in connection with a $400 million dollar fire on board USS Miami May 23 and other incidents at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.

Casey James Fury, a 24-year-old civilian worker at the Shipyard, is charged with arson. He was taken into custody by NCIS July 20 and had a first appearance hearing before a federal magistrate in Portland, Maine July 23.

Information gathered by NCIS indicates that Fury is responsible for the fire on board USS Miami. Additionally he is charged with setting a second minor fire in the Shipyard's Dry Dock #2 area June 16.

The criminal complaint accuses Fury of two counts of Title 18, United States Code, Section 81 (Arson) "within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, willfully and maliciously set fire to and burned a vessel, namely the USS Miami, together with building materials and supplies located thereon." The second count will be specific to burned building materials and supplies located in and around USS Miami.

 A criminal investigation headed by NCIS began soon after the fire was reported May 23 and is ongoing. Other law enforcement agencies including ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) are assisting in this investigation.

The Navy has begun planning repairs with the goal of returning USS Miami to the fleet.
 
Details of how the fire on board USS Miami was started and other matters of evidence are not being released.

Any further comment about the arrest or prosecution will be made by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Portland, Maine.
 
For more information, visit www.navy.mil, www.facebook.com/usnavy, or www.twitter.com/usnavy.

And there you have it.  ARSON.

[JohnnyReb]

Updated information:

And there you have it.  ARSON.

Did Brian Ross get a chance to say he was a rightwinger/teapartier?

[thundley4]

Did Brian Ross get a chance to say he was a rightwinger/teapartier?

Sounds like a typical military hating DUmmie to me.

[JohnnyReb]

Sounds like a typical military hating DUmmie to me.

Yep. I think that would be a safe bet.

[thundley4]

Yep. I think that would be a safe bet.

To be honest, my first thought was some sort of environmental nut, but some of DU fits that, also.

[vesta111]

To be honest, my first thought was some sort of environmental nut, but some of DU fits that, also.

May not have been intentional.     The man may have been smoking a joint heard someone coming and ditched the thing any where he could find.

On most ship yards the workers are civil service except for the crews of sub contractors.   I cannot tell you the number of times working as a lager that some idiot would come to work and light up a joint when insulating pipes in the bilge.    Darn it was not easy to work with second hand pot smoke making me woozy.

  Crap we would be mudding out before the wrap and at the time we covered with red lead, and these ass holes would come in to help and one would stand guard while the other one smoked.   We girls would do the job and if some one came down the joint went into the water in the bilge. 

I saw with my own eyes on an AB rip off all suited up with respirator one idiot remove his respirator and smoke a joint with all those fibers flying about.  The fibers you cannot see are the ones you inhale.

Mind you this was way back in the early 1980's before the piss test came out.  Things I assume have not gotten much better on the yards.   

Both sons, father mother,both grandparents and their family going way back, only thing that has not changed is the still behind the riggers shack.  No problem this is TRADITION of all ship yards going back to the Phoenicians and before them.

[thundley4]

May not have been intentional.     The man may have been smoking a joint heard someone coming and ditched the thing any where he could find.

Another BS for you Vesta.  One fire could be an accident, more than one, not so much.

[vesta111]

Another BS for you Vesta.  One fire could be an accident, more than one, not so much.

I deserve that BS, just talked to Mother that tells me the man was upset that he had to work late that night and the other night he lit fires.    Yup he was a worker for a civilian contractor.

These Contractors do not pay that much attention to those they employ, as I stated before about my times as a worker for a Contractor and having to do their job as they smoked dope.

I deserve the BS you sent and will admit I dropped the ball.  Hit me with your best shot, I be bad girl.

[obumazombie]

I actually thought along the lines of some posters who conjectured about improperly conducted welding operations. I'm glad I was wrong, and that they caught a firebug.

[vesta111]

I actually thought along the lines of some posters who conjectured about improperly conducted welding operations. I'm glad I was wrong, and that they caught a firebug.

I checked out Manchester Union Leader today and the tale is something else.   Sorry no link.  Sparky can send the link if you want to read some wild stuff.

It is the comments section that gets wild, one poster says the fire bugs girlfriend may be a Latino Prostitute that works undercover for the Government. His idea is the government pays hookers to date shipyard workers and Military men to pump them for information and report back if they have LOOSE LIPS.   

This poster was VERY instant that this goes on all the time.   Sub Contracting hookers to become girlfriends and report on what their boyfriend is doing, drinking too much, gambling,  talking about Classified stuff.

Far as Sub Contractors doing any kind of check on their hired or temp workers, other then a Piss test, a #SS card and birth certificate that has to be filed, the Temp workers Agency is responsible for doing any back ground check.    The Sub Contractor can in no way do all this themselves as some Temp workers leave after a few days.

The small Contractors have perhaps 6-7 full time employees [ I was one ]  the rest of the workers are unknown to the Contractor.  All jobs go by bidding so the Contractor has no idea how many workers they will need for a job until they win the bid.    ---All kinds of hankie pankie going on there.

Some ships are cautious with Contractors working on their ships, the ships with Marines aboard were a pain in the ass. Got to PEE, need an escort to the head.   20 feet in the air whistles are blown and everyone has to freeze as these kids came through on a training exercise.  Some how we had to hang on to a ladder or pipe and hold out our badge from the Contractor.    The Marines had weapons but unloaded I would guess but still very unnerving to see a Marine just out of teens with a weapon checking you out. 

Some how the Ship Yards function as they have for thousands of years, Ships and Boats are built and repaired, some of the workers all ways have been Lunatics, Drunk or on Drugs, not to mention Crew Members that can go daft.

   

[NHSparky]

Bottom line, I hope his now EX-girlfriend sends him pics of her knob-gobbling her "new" boyfriend until this little douchetool eats a shotgun.

He endangered countless people, destroyed a boat, and for what?  Cause he was butthurt over a woman and wanted to leave work?

I hope he spends the rest of his miserable life getting ass-plowed by Bubba.  He ain't going to a state prison, he's going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.  Hopefully Supermax.

[txradioguy]

Bottom line, I hope his now EX-girlfriend sends him pics of her knob-gobbling her "new" boyfriend until this little douchetool eats a shotgun.

He endangered countless people, destroyed a boat, and for what?  Cause he was butthurt over a woman and wanted to leave work?

I hope he spends the rest of his miserable life getting ass-plowed by Bubba.  He ain't going to a state prison, he's going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.  Hopefully Supermax.

^5

[Airwolf]

Every taxpayer should be allowed one good swing at his ass before he goes in the hole.

[NHSparky]

Oh, and vesta?  Read the comments at the Union Leader?

You do realize most of those clowns are as clueless as, well, YOU?

[zeitgeist]

Oh, and vesta?  Read the comments at the Union Leader?

You do realize most of those clowns are as clueless as, well, YOU?

 I guess I will have to truck over to the Union Leader.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120723/NEWS03/707239918/1006/news03


After that I will have to see if he was in fact a contractor or a civil service type (not that it makes the problem any better)  the truth is contractors were not vetted as well as full time civil service and use to be limited to where they could work without security supervision.  Of course that may have changed over the years.  It was becoming more difficult to recruit qualified people who could fill a clean specimen cup years ago. 

And yes Vesta I worked with an amazing assortment of drunks and druggies years ago before the urine tests came into being.  Both in and out of uniform.

[NHSparky]

Either way, you're on a boat which means you should have a basic security clearance.

[Chris_]

Shipyard worker who set fire to nuclear submarine sentenced to 17 years in jail

A shipyard worker who set fire to rags aboard a nuclear submarine because he wanted to go home was sentenced to 17 years in jail on Friday for the blaze that transformed the vessel into a fiery furnace, injured seven people and caused $450m in damage.

Casey James Fury, pictured, also was ordered to pay $400m in restitution.

Guardian

He. Wanted. To. Go. Home.

[Eupher]

Guardian

He. Wanted. To. Go. Home.

He'll get to do just that every night after his ass-pounding.

He'll go back to his cell for the next 15 years.

Rather comedic fining this jackoff $400m. As if he's actually going to pay it while in prison or, for that matter, even afterwards. 

[NHSparky]

He'll get to do just that every night after his ass-pounding.

He'll go back to his cell for the next 15 years.

Rather comedic fining this jackoff $400m. As if he's actually going to pay it while in prison or, for that matter, even afterwards. 

Basically, it's preventing him from ever making a dime off his story as well.  Obviously nobody expects him to pay it off (although wouldn't surprise me if the Oministration has already counted on this money) but he won't profit from his crimes either.