Fire aboard Navy destroyer USS Higgins, officials say
Washington — A serious hearth broke out earlier this week on the USS Higgins, a guided-missile destroyer and a mainstay of the Navy’s ahead presence in Asia, based on US officials.
The hearth knocked out electrical energy and propulsion on the destroyer, one of many officials advised CBS News, talking beneath situations of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to talk publicly.
No accidents to US service members had been reported as of Wednesday.
Details of how the hearth began and the precise location of the Higgins within the US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) weren’t available.
Details concerning what sections of the ship had been broken and the way lengthy it is going to take to restore had been additionally not accessible.
The Higgins was ported in Singapore as of February, based on AIS Marine vessel knowledge.
Pentagon spokespeople referred questions on harm to INDOPACOM. The destroyer’s public affairs did not instantly remark.
Earlier this month, a small hearth broke out on the plane provider USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, insulting eight US Navy sailors, based on the Navy Times. Separately, a fireplace broke out within the laundry areas aboard the plane provider USS Gerald R. Fordinjuring two sailors.
The Ford and its accompanying strike group are expected to go away the Middle East within the coming days, a US official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. The Ford was certainly one of three carriers working within the area.
The Higgins, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, is a part of the Navy’s ahead deployed forces assigned to the seventh Fleet — a key element of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, which oversees American navy operations throughout greater than half the globe.
The ship is known as after Marine Col. William Higgins, a veteran of the Vietnam battle, who was a part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon when he was kidnapped in Feb. 1988 by Hezbollah-linked militants. Higgins was tortured, interrogated after which murdered. He was promoted to his present rank whereas in captivity. Higgins’ remains had been discovered on a Beirut avenue in Dec. 1991.
