Twenty-one people suffered minor injuries in an explosion and fire Sunday on board a ship at Naval Base San Diego, military officials said.
The blaze was reported shortly before 9 a.m. on USS Bonhomme Richard, said Mike Raney, a spokesman for Naval Surface Force, US Pacific Fleet.
Seventeen sailors and four civilians were hospitalized with "non-life threatening injuries," Raney said in a brief statement. He didn't provide additional details.The cause of the fire was under investigation. It wasn't immediately known where on the 840-foot amphibious assault vessel the blast and the fire occurred.San Diego is the Bonhomme Richard's home port and it was undergoing routine maintenance at the time of the fire.
About 160 sailors and officers were on board, Raney said -- far fewer than the thousand typically on the ship when it's on active duty.Two other docked ships, USS Fitzgerald and USS Russell, were moved to berths away from the fire, Raney said.
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