I was in the Navy for five years and fires happen more often than you would think. They are just being reported now because of the illegal war Trump is conducting.

Mind bogglingly complex assets coupled with shit happens.

Lots of our information these days is followed by this phrase. Hear it all the time on the news.

Translation: this was leaked with no consequences or responsibility to the leaker. Might even be true...

Something the public needs to know but if attributed, you lose your job at best. Face civil or criminal consequences at worst. And have your email and phone blown up with death threats. The choice is yours.

These are deliberate leaks from unnamed sources. No consequences for lying to the public.

What Drumpf wants us to think is true.

Disinformation.

That does not make any sense for so many reasons. If anything, the Trump admin would like to project
readiness and would be incentivized to hide information regarding fires - rather than "leak" news of a fire.. Maybe I'm not understanding what you are implying. Fires are a bad look and Trump is all about appearances rather than substance.

get in a life boat and get to shore for some food. It is called survival.

Below deck, where most of the crew work and ALL of the crew sleep, those spaces traditionally have only ONE exit! Sure can't crawl out a window!

I think it was back in the 90s when I was in the Navy.

The study noted a 30% increase in fires when morale was low. Small fires do break out on ships and boats, especially when equipment is being used constantly with no downtime. The 30% increase stuck in my head because it seemed so high.

But when sailors are unhappy and demoralized, there is a noted increase in them.

There are some more current studies that explain why it happens, but I couldn't find the study that quantified it.

This also affects alertness - so exempting the possibility of sabotage, if a small fire starts the general g-damned fatigue of the crew
may slow the notice of and mitigation of said fire.