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Civilian employees at Pearl Harbor training with fire hoses, Hawaii, USA, WW2, ~1942(lemmy.world)

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Fun fact, Navy ships didn’t even have a dedicated firefighting force until after the disaster on the USS Forrestal in 1962. A fire broke out on the flight deck and the attempts to put it out were like watching Keystone Cops. Nobody had a dedicated job or understood how to actually fight a Class D fire.

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The video from the flight deck was used during my damage control training when I was in the Navy. The DC rate was created after that disaster.

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