2026-06-04T20:57:18.766Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/fire-gerald-ford-aircraft-carrier-video
- 新获取的视频显示了“杰拉尔德·R·福特”号航空母舰某区域遭火灾造成的严重损毁，美国海军最初曾淡化此事。
- 消息人士告诉CNN，今年3月的火灾发生时，该舰的消防系统失灵。
- 在创下11个月的最长部署纪录后，该航母目前至少需要一年时间进行维修。
本文由AI生成的摘要经CNN编辑审核。
今年3月，这艘全球最大的航空母舰在参与针对伊朗的军事行动期间发生火灾，美国海军当时发布简短声明称，火势已“得到控制”，两名水手因“非致命性伤势”接受治疗，航母已“全面恢复作战能力”。
但CNN获取的新视频显示，火灾造成的损毁和严重程度远超海军此前的说法。视频画面显示，水手们就寝的铺位被完全烧毁，残留的床铺只剩被烧焦扭曲的金属，天花板似乎也被大火烧穿。电线从天花板垂下，铺位周围地面散落着大量灰烬。
“我当时真的以为我们要失去这艘船了，”“杰拉尔德·R·福特”号上的一名水手告诉CNN，回忆起灭火时的情景。“当时要么奋力扑救，要么等死。”
这名水手和一名知情的美国高级官员透露，该舰的消防系统未能启动，水手们不得不自发奋力灭火。
这位美国高级官员告诉CNN，当时福特号正在红海支持美国针对伊朗的军事行动，海军的公开声明淡化了火灾对福特号的影响，但火灾确实对作战能力造成了影响。海军作战部长达里尔·考德尔海军上将4月表示，福特号在两天后才恢复飞行任务，被迫前往希腊港口进行临时维修。
当被问及火灾的严重程度以及消防控制系统失灵的问题时，一名海军发言人告诉CNN：“火灾调查仍在进行中。”
CNN此前曾报道称，福特号的船员花了约30小时扑灭火灾、清理现场并防止复燃，约600名水手因铺位受损无法使用。
“这场火灾本不该演变成这样。舰上配备的消防系统本应将火扑灭，”该匿名水手表示，他因担心遭到海军报复而要求不具名。“所有人——包括我在内——都参与了灭火。”
CNN获取的视频和福特号上水兵的叙述，首次向公众清晰展现了船员们在破纪录的11个月部署期间所经历的艰难处境，此次部署包括针对伊朗的作战行动和美军在委内瑞拉的军事行动。
“大型火灾向来都是严峻挑战，此次火情尤为严重——起火点在洗衣房和烘干机区域，”福特号返回弗吉尼亚州母港后，考德尔告诉CNN。“船员们应对得当，他们英勇无畏地扑救了火灾，短短几天内就重新投入战斗。”
这艘造价130亿美元的航母是美国针对伊朗军事行动的核心力量。福特号上的飞行员一波接一波地执行轰炸任务，重创伊朗目标。但这艘巨型航母并非只处于进攻态势。
授予该航母打击群的总统集体嘉奖令显示，该编队“持续面临敌方导弹和单向攻击无人机的威胁”。
接受CNN采访的水手回忆称，福特号在红海期间，曾看到天空中出现橙色轨迹，伊朗弹药出现在视野中。当伊朗导弹或无人机逼近福特号一定范围时，舰上会“拉响警报，告知我们预计会遭到打击，要求开展损管作业”，这名水手说。
此次部署期间并非只有火灾这一问题。该舰的马桶多次堵塞。CNN获取的另一段舰上视频显示，一个又一个马桶被人类排泄物填满。
“如果你在舰艏区域，就得一路走到舰艉，才能找到能用的马桶，”这名水手说。
火灾造成的后果本可能更严重。曾在2025年前担任时任海军部长海事战略顾问的亨特·斯泰尔斯表示，这艘舰能迅速从火灾中恢复，证明了船员在破纪录部署期间的训练水平和应变能力。
“火灾和进水是任何舰艇面临的两大最致命危险，”斯泰尔斯告诉CNN。“值得称道的是，美国海军的组织文化和设计理念始终专注于损管准备和系统冗余，以确保舰艇的生存能力。”
当被问及消防系统失灵的问题时，斯泰尔斯说：“战争和战场损伤本质上不可预测。你不知道哪个系统会出故障。”他补充说，这正是训练和培训水手如此重要的原因。
福特号于2017年正式编入美国海军，是美国11艘核动力航母中最新、技术最先进的一艘，也成为美国海军力量实力与局限性的象征。
曾在海军服役26年、担任过潜艇军官的布伦特·萨德勒此前告诉CNN，福特号的电磁弹射系统可以弹射从小型无人机到大型飞机的各种装备，为指挥官提供了多样化的火力选择。萨德勒表示，美国其他10艘航母都不具备这一能力。
福特号的部署于5月结束，返回弗吉尼亚州诺福克基地，此次部署还包括协助美军抓捕委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗的行动。这次部署是越南战争以来航母执行任务时间最长的一次，期间还在地中海和挪威进行了停靠。
由于此次远航带来的各种损耗，包括与火灾相关的额外维修，福特号目前正处于延长维护阶段。一名美国官员告诉CNN，福特号可能至少需要一年时间才能再次出航，其他舰艇可能需要填补这一战力空白。
Exclusive: Video reveals damage from fire on US aircraft carrier after sources say fire control system failed
2026-06-04T20:57:18.766Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/fire-gerald-ford-aircraft-carrier-video
- Newly obtained video reveals severe damage from a fire to a section of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford that the Navy initially downplayed.
- The ship’s fire-suppression system failed during the March blaze, sources told CNN.
- The carrier now faces at least a year of repairs after its record 11-month deployment.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
When a fire burned aboard the world’s biggest aircraft carrier in March as it took part in operations against Iran, the US Navy released a short statement saying the blaze had been “contained,” that two sailors had received medical treatment for “non-life-threatening injuries” and that the carrier was “fully operational.”
But new video obtained by CNN makes clear the fire was more severe and damaging than the Navy suggested. Bunks where sailors slept were totally destroyed, the video shows. What remained of the beds was charred, twisted metal beneath a ceiling also apparently hollowed out by the inferno. Wires dangled from the ceiling and heaps of ashes littered the ground around the bunks, according to the video.
“I seriously thought we were going to lose the ship,” one sailor aboard the ship, the USS Gerald R. Ford, told CNN, describing how he felt while fighting the fire. “It’s either fight or die.”
The ship’s fire-suppression system failed to work, leaving the sailors scrambling to put out the blaze, according to the sailor and a senior US official familiar with the incident.
The senior US official told CNN that the Navy’s public statement downplayed the impact the fire had on the Ford as it was in the Red Sea supporting US military operations against Iran, as the fire did have an effect on capabilities. Two days passed before the Ford was able to fly sorties again, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said in April, and the ship was forced to head to port in Greece for temporary repairs.
Asked about the extent of the fire and the fire control system’s failure to function, a Navy spokesperson told CNN, “The investigation of the fire is ongoing.”
It took the Ford’s crew about 30 hours to put out the fire, clean it up and prevent it from reigniting, and roughly 600 sailors lost access to their bunks due to damage, CNN previously reported.
“It shouldn’t have gotten that bad. The fire-suppression system built into the ship should have put it out,” the sailor said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation from the Navy. “Everybody — me included — helped put the fire out.”
Videos obtained by CNN and accounts of sailors on the Ford paint the clearest public picture yet of the adversity that sailors experienced during a record-breaking, 11-month deployment that included the war with Iran and the US military operation in Venezuela.
“Big fires are always a challenge, and this was significant — laundry and dryer-based fire,” Caudle told CNN after the Ford returned to its home port in Virginia. “The crew handled that so well, and they fought it brilliantly and courageously and basically was back in the fight within a matter of days.”
The $13-billion ship was central to US military operations against Iran. Pilots aboard the Ford flew wave after wave of bombing sorties that hammered Iranian targets. But the massive carrier wasn’t solely on the offensive.
The carrier strike group that includes the Ford was under “persistent threat from enemy missiles and one-way attack drones,” a Presidential Unit Citation awarded to the group said.
The sailor interviewed by CNN recalled at one point, when the Ford was in the Red Sea, seeing an orange streak in the sky as Iranian munitions appeared on the horizon. When Iranian missiles or drones would come within a certain range of the Ford, the ship would “sound an alert, telling us to expect to get hit and do damage control,” the sailor said.
The fire wasn’t the only issue during the deployment. The ship’s toilets were repeatedly clogged. Another video from aboard the Ford obtained by CNN shows human waste filled to the brim of toilet after toilet.
“If you were in the forward section of the ship, you’d have to walk all the way to the aft section, just to find a toilet that worked,” the sailor said.
The fallout from the fire could’ve been worse. Hunter Stires, who served as a maritime strategist to the then-Navy secretary until 2025, said the ship’s quick recovery from the fire was a testament to the crew’s training and resiliency amid a record-breaking deployment.
“Fire and flooding are the two greatest dangers aboard any ship,” Stires told CNN. “The US Navy, to its credit, has an organizational culture and design philosophy that is relentlessly focused on damage control preparation and system redundancy in order to assure ship survivability.”
“War and battle damage is inherently unpredictable,” Stires said, when asked about the failure of the fire-suppression system. “You don’t know what is going to break,” he said, adding that’s why training and preparing sailors is so important.
Commissioned into the Navy in 2017, the Ford is the newest and most technologically advanced of the 11 US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and has become a symbol of the strength, and limits, of US naval power.
The Ford’s electronic catapult system allows it to launch anything from small drones to big aircraft, giving commanders an array of firepower options, Brent Sadler, a 26-year veteran of the Navy and former submarine officer, previously told CNN. The other 10 US aircraft carriers don’t have that capability, according to Sadler.
The Ford’s deployment, which ended when it returned to Norfolk, Virginia, in May, also saw the ship help with the US operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The deployment — the longest operational one by a carrier since the Vietnam War — also included stops in the Mediterranean and Norway.
The Ford is now looking at an extended phase of maintenance from all of the wear-and-tear of the voyage, including additional repairs related to the fire. One US official told CNN it could be a least a year before the Ford is ready to sail again, and that other ships may have to fill the gap.
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