The USS Forrestal Fire, Explained: Aircraft carriers can be dangerous places to work. These ships are literally floating airports, and if proper safety measures aren’t carried out, things can ...

Gloucester County; USS Forrestal veterans get last glimpse of their ship before it travels to scrapyard. Updated: ; Feb. 05, 2014, 12:30 p.m. | Published: ; Feb. 05 ...

The same could not be said of the fire that broke out on the USS Forrestal (CV-59) in July 1967, in which 134 were killed and another 161 injured.It was also, sadly, not an isolated incident.