KITTERY, Maine (AP) — A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured six people, including a firefighter.
Fire crews responded Wednesday to the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, a town near Portsmouth, N.H., popular with tourists.
The shipyard says the injured people have been treated and released. The firefighter suffered heat exhaustion.
The fire still was not out shortly before midnight but shipyard spokesman Capt. Bryant Fuller says the situation is improving.
Shipyard public affairs specialist Gary Hildreth says the fire started in the forward compartment of the sub. The shipyard says the sub’s reactor wasn’t operating at the time and was unaffected.
The cause of the fire hasn’t been identified.
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- Smoke rises from a dry dock as fire crews respond Wednesday to a fire on the USS Miami SSN 755 submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery.
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- A fire burns on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery on Wednesday. Fire crews responded Wednesday to the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard but the cause of the fire has not yet been identified.
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- In this April 26, 2004 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Miami SSN 755, homeported in Groton, Conn. arrives in port in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A fire aboard the nuclear-powered submarine on Wednesday at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery injured six people.
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