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Navy: Progress on warship fire, but ship's fate uncertain

by Associated Press
| July 14, 2020 4:27 PM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marking significant progress, firefighters were able to move deeper inside the fire-engulfed USS Bonhomme Richard on Tuesday on their third day of battling the flames. But a top Navy official said it was too soon to say if the 23-year-old ship that is burning on opposite ends will be salvageable.

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