NAHA, Okinawa Prefecture – A fire broke out on a US military vessel off the US Navy’s White Beach facility in the city of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan, on Wednesday.
The Japanese coast guard said the fire hit the 210-meter-long amphibious warship USS New Orleans. There were no reports of oil spills or injuries.
At around 5 p.m., the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Naha, the capital of Okinawa, was informed of the fire by the US military’s Camp Zukeran, also in the prefecture, and was asked to help extinguish the fire.(Jiji Press)