LOS ANGELES, (Xinhua) - U.S. mariners and regular citizen fire teams kept on engaging the blast on land and/or water capable attack transport USS Bonhomme Richard for the fourth day straight Wednesday at Naval Base San Diego in California.
A sum of 63 staff, 40 mariners and 23 regular citizens, have been treated for minor wounds including heat fatigue and smoke inward breath while battling the fire starting at early Wednesday, as per an announcement from the Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
U.S. Naval force authorities said there are no staff hospitalized as of now.
Helicopter have led in excess of 1,500 helicopter water pail drops, which is cooling the super structure and flight deck empowering fire groups to get locally available inside to battle the fire, authorities included.
"Every single shipboard fire are hard to battle," sea legal advisor Rod Sullivan, who served in the Navy, was cited as saying by a nearby TV channel, NBC 7 San Diego.
"It's extremely hard to interfere with oxygen in open deck spaces," Sullivan included, taking note of it's normal for transport flames to take days to smother.
U.S. Naval force authorities said they will do an intensive examination of the episode to incorporate evaluating the reason for the fire and harm to the boat. They called attention to that the fire seems to have begun in a huge lower freight territory.
Around 160 mariners were on board USS Bonhomme Richard when the fire was summoned at roughly 8:30 a.m. nearby time on Sunday. The boat, with a team size of around 1,000, has been moored in San Diego since 2018 experiencing upkeep, as indicated by the U.S. Naval force.
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