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.”
A single dryer fire would not have raged for hours nor necessitated a return to port.
I said that’s where it started, there’s a lot of flammable shit in a laundry. Also, this was likely a commercial dryer, so much bigger than what you have at home.