Great work, bob

Great reporting on the sub fire with the video

you have the duty crew on board, that are trained in shipboard fires...i think they would have reacted, and would have whatever fire under control, before anybody else arrived. unless nuke subs, have a different system than surface ships...this is all standard sop for all naval vessels.

I was in submarines in my 21 years in the Navy from 1968 through 1989. I was a mechanical nuclear plant operator and an engineering lab technician. Fires happened. Flooding happened. NO ONE was ever injured and we ALL survived because the crew responded to the casualty properly. NO nuclear incidents ever happened. We DID a lot of drills and THAT is what I attribute my survival TO... There is NO reason to think THIS event was ANY different from those I experienced. It distresses me when the news media sensationalize something like this for a "news bite"... Accidents HAPPEN. When was the last time you saw this same level of attention paid to a drunk driver that ran down a pedestrian in a crosswalk? Put in the one word NUCLEAR and suddenly it makes headlines...

Six hours and it's still burning? I think the public is being fed a load of bull. There's a lot more to it and we'll eventually find out--I hope!

How come the base does not have adequate foam dispensing equiptment? It's almost 58 miles from Logan to the base....seems penny wise pound foolish.

It's amazing that so many people here seem to have the knowledge of what is/has happened to the USS Miami during this event. Even the reporter doesn't know and it seems that he is being responsible to not "guess" or report any potential untruths. It's easy to judge before you know the facts but, after the facts are known, none of those people who judged prior ever seem to acknowledge that they were wrong. Kinda like politics, huh?

...and, of course, we believe everything the military tells us.

I live less the a mile from the base..the smell of what later was called"plastic burning" was disturbing most of the night...my daughter couldnt sleep [14yrs old active imagination] but there does seem to be questions ..why sooo long to put it out?..why foam truck from Logan?..hopefully my military neighbors well have answers...never gave a second thought to leaving close to this base..now maybe I should?
signed Concerned neighbor

I was on subs in the 60's. The crews drill almost every day for all sorts of problems. Lets not be hasty to judge until we know what happened. B. Jenkins MMC (SS)

Lets blame Obama. Oh wait he'll only blame Bush. More cuts to the Military. The fine men/women of our military services will again be asked to do more with less. We will start to see more incidences like these as our Military budget is cut. We will start to look more like the Soviet Navy as China modernizes its military on our dollars. Thank god there were no serious injuries. As a former fire fighter I know that ship board fires can be extremely hot stubborn fires in confined space, how ever having never fought one, can maybe a Navy Veteran Shipboard FF explain why it took so long to extinguish and how did it get so out of control being that the crew was on board and I know that they regularly train for such incidents? God Bless The United States Of America, God Bless The United States Navy, and Other Military Services and all the Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Gaurdsmen!

In the shipyard for maintenance, lots of welding and burning going on, hot slag got into something,smoldered and burned.

chances are the crew was not onboard when the fire started if it was there for upgrades. That may have a lot to do with why it took so long for the fire to be put out but none of us will ever really know unless we have a friend who is a sailor on that boat.

This was not Kittery, Maine. It was in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Paul P -- though the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has a Portsmouth address, it's located in Kittery, Maine, across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth.

Seems to be a lot of speculations as to what happened here. The facts will never truly come out because the military is great at secrets. I know cause I am in the AF. The report did a good job at not speculating as to the cause of the fire but others here want to tell us that it was this or that. Bottom line is, we might never know. And if the sub was in dry dock then there is no crew so the response time is longer then if they were readily available.

Shipboard fires on Naval Vessels in the undergoing overhaul happen all the time. This one sounds a bit more severe. "Something" else is NOT being report if it took 10hrs to put out. Only one comparable was the USS Forrestal in 1967. THe Forrestal had rockets, bombs and jets exploe all over the place.

$900 million? $1.8 Billion would be more accurate.

FIRE - FIRE - FIRE IN THE FOWARD PAINT LOCKER - THIS IS NOT A DRILL....!

We as a nation are very fortunate that our Navy has not ever had a nuclear mishap on board ship while at sea. But please make no mistake people....accidents and fires do happen all the time in the Navy especially while at sea. Yes, there have even been fires within the torpedo rooms even on nuclear attack subs. These fires, especially accute with subs back in the 1960s due to the type of engines used on torpedos that were being used at the time. It is commonly believed, that it was one of these types of fires down in the forward torpedo room, in which routine maintenance was may have been being conduct on board the Thresher Shark when it went down in 1968.

where in the hell was security?

I'm just glad no one was seriously hurt or killed.

To all you nosy civilians out there. What goes on in the military is none of your business. You want to be on the inside, join one of the services. Stop complaining and add your help. A lot goes on in all branches that even those in those branches don't know about. It all boils down to "a need to know". And all you complainers have NO need to know.

As a retired "Bubblehead" and Chief of the Boat (COB) who served on nuke boats for over 20 years, I can tell you fires were a big fear. Rather than trash the reporters and all those supposedly in the know, lets be thankful nobody died. Miami can be replaced; the lives of crewman cannot.
Jim in Fredericksburg, VA

The Scopion was sunk by a Russian topedo, Read the book Scorpion Down by
Ed Offley it explains in great detail what happened to her and her crew. If you
have ever seen pics of her finale resting place you will notice she is almost intact
givin her depth, which means she was flooded by the time she got to her crush
depth, unlike the Threasher which is in peices from imploding. Heres a question?
if a torpedo exploded in the bow why is it intact ?, The Kursk was a double hulled
sub and when a torpedo exploded( setting off others ) most of the bow was gone.
the Scorpion was not a double hulled boat to my knowledge and the only damage
is from were she hit the bottom and telesoped in on herself which probably blew the forward hatches giving the apperance of an explosion. Read the book , its not
entertaining, its an eye opener.

things happen .must say crew must feel horrible ,thanks for servtce

ed clark