Bonhomme Richard total lack of fire safety

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On the day of the fire, just 29 of the ship’s 216 fire stations and 15 of 807 portable fire extinguishers were in standard working order.

https://www.propublica.org/article/b...-safety-lapses

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Not the first time the navy has scapegoated a disaster; right along the lines of the USS Iowa disaster; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

On 24 May, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) aired an NBC news story by Fred Francis and Len Tepper that identified Truitt and Hartwig as criminal suspects in the Iowa explosion and implied that the two had been in a homosexual relationship. NIS special agent James Whitener had—without authorization, it was later revealed by NIS officials—given Tepper and Francis classified computer diskettes containing the complete NIS files on the Iowa investigation. Later media reports indicated that the U.S. Navy believed that Hartwig had intentionally caused the explosion after his relationship with Truitt had gone sour...