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2012/07/24 14:24:23
Subject: Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
PORTLAND, Maine – A civilian employee set a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early, Navy investigators said in a complaint filed Monday.
Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H., faces up to life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson in the fire aboard the USS Miami attack submarine while it was in dry dock May 23 and a second blaze outside the sub on June 16.
Fury was taking medications for anxiety and depression and told investigators he set the fires so he could get out of work, according a seven-page affidavit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland.
If convicted of either charge, Fury could face life imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 and be ordered to pay restitution, officials said. His federal public defender, David Beneman, declined to comment. A court appearance was set for Monday afternoon.
The Miami was in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for an overhaul when the fire damaged the torpedo room and command area inside the forward compartment. It took more than 12 hours to extinguish.
A second fire was reported June 16 on the dry dock cradle on which the Miami rests, but there was no damage and no injuries.
Fury, who was working on the sub as a painter and sandblaster, initially denied starting the fires but eventually acknowledged his involvement, the affidavit states.
He admitted setting the May 23 fire, which caused an estimated $400 million in damage, while taking a lie-detector test and being told by the examiner he wasn't being truthful.
Fury told Timothy Bailey, an agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, that "his anxiety started getting really bad," so he grabbed his cigarettes and a lighter, walked up to a bunk room and set fire to some rags on the top bunk.
The Navy originally said the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside.
Fury said he set the second fire after getting anxious over a text-message exchange with an ex-girlfriend about a man she had started seeing, according to the affidavit. He wanted to leave work early, so he took some alcohol wipes and set them on fire outside the submarine.
Fury said he initially lied about setting the fires "because he was scared and because everything was blurry to him and his memory was impacted due to his anxiety and the medication he was taking at the time," according to the affidavit.
Fury told NCIS agent Jeremy Gauthier that he was taking three medications for anxiety, depression and sleep, and a fourth for allergies. He checked himself into an in-patient mental health facility on June 21 and checked himself out two days later, the affidavit reads.
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2012/07/24 14:29:04
Subject: Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
Anyone know the chances of firing causing a nuclear disaster on a nuclear submarine? Possible, impossible, improbable?
I would have assumed they would have taken the reactor offline, especially if they have civilian contractors working on them.
If not then IMO chances are fairly high a fire would do something though they probably have safeguards for that kind of thing.
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2012/07/24 16:45:03
Subject: Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
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Anyone know the chances of firing causing a nuclear disaster on a nuclear submarine? Possible, impossible, improbable?
Well, if the fire broke the containment seal it could cause some minor radiation leaks. Just the immediate area, probably just the sub itself, nothing to really worry about. Unless the fire managed to cook off the onboard ordinance and destroy the entire sub, that could contaminate the local area.
No real danger to the public at large, depending on how close residential areas were. The people on the sub would have issues though, although I would personally be more concerned about the conventional ordinance then the radiation.
This guy needs to get locked away. Thats a major screw up. Arson on government property, especially a national asset like a Nuclear submarine?
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Either he's phenomenally stupid or phenomenally dumb....
Either way he doesn't need to be working on a nuclear submarine.
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2012/07/24 17:04:06
Subject: Re:Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
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2012/07/24 17:08:27
Subject: Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
Anyone know the chances of firing causing a nuclear disaster on a nuclear submarine? Possible, impossible, improbable?
Well, if the fire broke the containment seal it could cause some minor radiation leaks. Just the immediate area, probably just the sub itself, nothing to really worry about. Unless the fire managed to cook off the onboard ordinance and destroy the entire sub, that could contaminate the local area.
No real danger to the public at large, depending on how close residential areas were. The people on the sub would have issues though, although I would personally be more concerned about the conventional ordinance then the radiation.
This guy needs to get locked away. Thats a major screw up. Arson on government property, especially a national asset like a Nuclear submarine?
The odds of a fire doing anything to the reactor are nil.
There is a water tight door that separates the engine room from the forward compartment, they would close it and the engine room is completely separated. It is also different fighting a fire in the forward compartment than it is in the engine room, the amount of openly flammable material in the engine room is much less than the forward berthing area where the fire was set initially, so it would not spread to the extent of the first one the guy set.
Secondly, there are extreme safety measures in place around the reactor and the housing that keeps the radiation contained has its own fail safes for keeping a reactor fire contained, hence outside fire getting in is nigh impossible.
So basically the odds of a fire penetrating a housing designed to keep a reactor fire (aka a reactor without coolant, aka a reactor about to go into meltdown) in check are next to nothing.
Source: 4 years aboard a submarine
2012/07/24 17:28:20
Subject: Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
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I feel a bit sorry for the poor guy...
He is obviously not well, and is paying the price for it. My sympathy is with him.
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2012/07/24 19:38:53
Subject: Civilian worker set fire to submarine in Maine so he could leave early, Navy says
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