Clean the lint filter? That’s for sissies and women, REAL men just throw load after load of laundry in there!
Subject: Fire. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the
premises of 123 Cavendon Roadat sea… no, that’s too formal. [deletes text, starts again] Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark.123 Cavendon Roadlaundry . Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss. [sigh of relief]0118 999 88199 9119 725…3
A fire… At a Sea Parks?!
I guess us navy ships just do that
The ship’s trying to get a good sear on those cold meatloaf and boiled carrots.
Pretty much. https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-04-30/uss-higgins-electrical-indopacific-seventh-fleet-21542697.html
"The Higgins malfunction follows a rash of fires aboard Navy ships this year.
Most recently, a fire aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt on April 19 injured three sailors before the crew extinguished it. The destroyer was pierside at a naval shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., at the time.
On April 14, a fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower injured three sailors while the ship was undergoing maintenance at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. The small fire was immediately contained, and the injured sailors were treated and returned to full duty.
Another blaze started March 12 in the laundry area of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford while the ship was in the Red Sea in support of Operation Epic Fury. Three sailors were treated for injuries related to the fire, according to the Navy."
Yeah, this is like the warehouse fires. It happens all the time but we generally only hear about the big fires like the Miami, Bonhomme Richard, and Ford. Meanwhile there’s a butt-can fire on the smoke deck every other week because no one emptied it and a couple small fires here and there on a ship each quarter.
one of the officials told CBS News, speaking under condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
Details of how the fire started and the exact location of the Higgins in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) were not readily available.
Details regarding what sections of the ship were damaged and how long it will take to repair were also not available.
An anonymous source knows that a fire broke out on the ships but not how the fire began?
If it were IRGC they’d know right? So this appears to be another spontaneous mysterious ship fire without a confirmed source of how it started.
A bunch of people denied the clogged toilets was sabo work, and then a bunch of other people denied the last fire was sabo work, are they still going to deny this one?
There are troops out there who don’t want to be out there for the escalations. I am completely convinced that these sailors are fucking things up internally to get the ships they’re assigned to sent for repairs.
EDIT: They can’t even stop the troops having the ability to do this because to do so they’d have to take cigarettes away from the men and that would only make things considerably worse.
Sailors don’t even have to do anything, the Navy is 20 years behind on maintenance work.
(no paywall)I think it is a combination of both, everything is so below acceptable standards that it makes things extremely easy for saboteurs.
Ive heard fourth-hand that the rumors of attempted sabotage are true
Pfft, fire safety training? suppression systems? That’s just burning money! They’re boats? They’re surrounded by water?
The nice thing about fires on boats is that eventually they go out on their own.
Comrade Orca has my uncritical support
The stars and stripes article about this brings up ship fires I don’t think I even heard about. https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-04-30/uss-higgins-electrical-indopacific-seventh-fleet-21542697.html
The Higgins malfunction follows a rash of fires aboard Navy ships this year.
Most recently, a fire aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt on April 19 injured three sailors before the crew extinguished it. The destroyer was pierside at a naval shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., at the time.
On April 14, a fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower injured three sailors while the ship was undergoing maintenance at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. The small fire was immediately contained, and the injured sailors were treated and returned to full duty.
Another blaze started March 12 in the laundry area of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford while the ship was in the Red Sea in support of Operation Epic Fury. Three sailors were treated for injuries related to the fire, according to the Navy.
Fires do just kinda happen on ships. You have to constantly clean and maintain it to prevent fires. A couple hundred people living and working in a place builds up a lot of very flammable lint. Add a few tons of fuel and hazmat (and a lot of fresh oil based paint) and you get fires.
Just you woit, USS ‘iggins, just you woit…
hey, if soldiers are allowed their personal firearms on base isn’t it only fair to allow them to have them on ship too?
I’m sure the flooded toilets and the fire will cancel each other out.
Clay Higgins burned the gumbo
I wonder if he sounds exactly like Matt’s impression?
The character Infernus from the hit yet-to-be-officially-realeased game Deadlock has a line he says when he ults that is ringing through my head for some reason right now
These laundry fires are out of control!
Good I needed a light
Nah that’s normal they just do that.
Zeus! Apollo! Fetch the extinguisher!
Poseidon has it covered.
