{"id":34409,"date":"2026-05-01T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-fire-damages-the-destroyer-of-the-us-navy-uss-higgins\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:25:25","slug":"the-fire-damages-the-destroyer-of-the-us-navy-uss-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-fire-damages-the-destroyer-of-the-us-navy-uss-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"The fire damages the destroyer of the US Navy &#8220;USS Higgins&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_41168de59c67c5187548fb91fdeb3f32.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>A large fire broke out earlier this week aboard the USS Higgins, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, damaging its electrical and propulsion systems, according to a report Thursday, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News, citing U.S. officials, said no injuries among crew members were reported as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cause of the fire and location The ship&#8217;s exact location in the Indo-Pacific region remains unclear, officials said, adding that the extent of the damage and the timeline for repairs are still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The USS Higgins, part of the Navy&#8217;s Asia-based force, is known to have last docked in Singapore earlier this year, according to vessel tracking data cited in the report.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display advertising (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large fire broke out earlier this week aboard the USS Higgins, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, damaging its electrical and propulsion systems, according to a report Thursday, Anadolu reports. CBS News, citing U.S. officials, said no injuries among crew members were reported as of Wednesday. Cause of the fire and location The ship&#8217;s exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-34409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":13,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34411,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34409\/revisions\/34411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}