{"id":78275,"date":"2026-04-30T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fire-aboard-navy-destroyer-uss-higgins-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:36:54","slug":"fire-aboard-navy-destroyer-uss-higgins-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fire-aboard-navy-destroyer-uss-higgins-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire aboard Navy destroyer USS Higgins, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington<\/em> \u2014 A major fire broke out earlier this week on the USS Higgins, a guided-missile destroyer and a mainstay of the Navy&#8217;s forward presence in Asia, according to U.S. officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire knocked out electricity and propulsion on the destroyer, one of the officials told CBS News, speaking under condition of anonymity because they weren&#8217;t authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries to U.S. service members had been reported as of Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Details of how the fire started and the exact location of the Higgins in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) were not readily available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Details regarding what sections of the ship were damaged and how long it will take to repair were also not available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Higgins was ported in Singapore as of February, according to AIS Marine vessel data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokespeople referred questions about damage to INDOPACOM. The destroyer&#8217;s public affairs didn&#8217;t immediately comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a small fire broke out on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2026\/04\/17\/uss-dwight-d-eisenhower-experiences-small-fire-while-undergoing-maintenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injuring<\/a> eight U.S. Navy sailors, according to the Navy Times. Separately, a fire broke out in the laundry spaces aboard the aircraft carrier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/laundry-fire-uss-gerald-r-ford-sailors-injured\/507-5dccf01d-1aa4-47f3-851b-dc858b19c0bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USS Gerald R. Ford<\/a>, injuring two sailors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ford and its accompanying strike group are <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-trump-warning-strait-of-hormuz-bab-el-mandeb-threat-oil-prices\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">expected<\/a><\/span> to leave the Middle East in the coming days, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. The Ford was one of three carriers operating in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Higgins, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, is part of the Navy&#8217;s forward deployed forces assigned to the 7th Fleet \u2014 a key component of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, which oversees American military operations across more than half the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ship is named after Marine Col. William Higgins, a veteran of the Vietnam war, who was part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon when he was kidnapped in Feb. 1988 by Hezbollah-linked militants. Higgins was tortured, interrogated and then was murdered. He was promoted to his current rank while in captivity. 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