5 Sailors Hospitalized After Fire Aboard Navy Destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill

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5 Sailors Hospitalized After Fire Aboard Navy Destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill
Two of the sailors are being treated for smoke inhalation
Published 08/14/23 04:43 PM ET|Updated 2 hr ago
Carley Welch

The Navy destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill caught fire Monday morning, sending five crew members to the hospital.

The guided-missile warship erupted into flames around 10:40 a.m. Monday at the Jacksonville Naval Station in Mayport.


Two of the five hospitalized sailors are being treated for smoke inhalation, officials told News4Jax. It remains unclear why the other three were hospitalized.
 
https://themessenger.com/news/navy-ship-catches-fire-five-hospitalized

[PeteS in CA]

From this brief article, https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/08/14/jfrd-crews-respond-to-fire-at-nas-mayport/ , it appears that the fire was extinguished fairly quickly.