A fire that caused an estimated $400 million (258.2 million pounds) in damage to a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked in Maine may have been caused by a vacuum cleaner, authorities said on Wednesday.
The fire in the forward compartment – which includes crew living, command and control spaces and the torpedo room – of the USS Miami on May 23 took about 12 hours to extinguish and injured seven fire fighters.
“Preliminary findings indicate the fire started in a vacuum cleaner used to clean work sites at end of shift, and stored in an unoccupied space,” the shipyard’s public affairs office said in a release. Specific details
are still being evaluated.
Initial conclusions reached through a formal Naval safety investigation could be released in the next two weeks.
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