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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Crew+tames+fire+aboard+navy+frigate+Atlantic/1570782/story.html
Crew tames fire aboard navy frigate in Atlantic
'Freddie' unfazed after serious blaze
By Richard Foot, Canwest News ServiceMay
Crew members on a Canadian naval frigate were forced to fight a large fire in the engine room last week as the warship was on a training exercise off the coast of Nova Scotia. The fire broke out at about 10 p.m. last Thursday in the forward engine room onboard the HMCS Fredericton, one of the navy's 12 frigates, which has recently come out of a refit before an international deployment this summer. There were no serious injuries from the fire.
Although naval investigators are still figuring out how much damage was done to the ship's gas turbine engines -- it's main source of propulsion -- the fire has not interrupted the frigate's training schedule, according to Cmdr. Steve Waddell, its senior officer.
The "Freddie," as it's known in the navy, made a brief scheduled stop in Halifax after the fire, where it picked up a team of fire investigators, but was back in the North Atlantic a day later. "Life at sea is pretty dangerous work sometimes, and we did have a fire in our forward engine room, which was responded to correctly and safely by the ship's company," Waddell said Wednesday.
The fire may have started in the oily bilge of the engine room. Waddell said it was extinguished within minutes by an automated halon sprinkler system. Firefighters then descended into the engine room, where they worked for nearly an hour, making sure the room was safe.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Crew+tames+fire+aboard+navy+frigate+Atlantic/1570782/story.html
Crew tames fire aboard navy frigate in Atlantic
'Freddie' unfazed after serious blaze
By Richard Foot, Canwest News ServiceMay
Crew members on a Canadian naval frigate were forced to fight a large fire in the engine room last week as the warship was on a training exercise off the coast of Nova Scotia. The fire broke out at about 10 p.m. last Thursday in the forward engine room onboard the HMCS Fredericton, one of the navy's 12 frigates, which has recently come out of a refit before an international deployment this summer. There were no serious injuries from the fire.
Although naval investigators are still figuring out how much damage was done to the ship's gas turbine engines -- it's main source of propulsion -- the fire has not interrupted the frigate's training schedule, according to Cmdr. Steve Waddell, its senior officer.
The "Freddie," as it's known in the navy, made a brief scheduled stop in Halifax after the fire, where it picked up a team of fire investigators, but was back in the North Atlantic a day later. "Life at sea is pretty dangerous work sometimes, and we did have a fire in our forward engine room, which was responded to correctly and safely by the ship's company," Waddell said Wednesday.
The fire may have started in the oily bilge of the engine room. Waddell said it was extinguished within minutes by an automated halon sprinkler system. Firefighters then descended into the engine room, where they worked for nearly an hour, making sure the room was safe.
