In this April 26, 2004 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Miami SSN 755, homeported in Groton, Conn. arrives in port in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A fire aboard the nuclear-powered submarine on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine injured four people. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, PH2 Kevin Langford)
In this April 26, 2004 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Miami SSN 755, homeported in Groton, Conn. arrives in port in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A fire aboard the nuclear-powered submarine on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine injured four people. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, PH2 Kevin Langford)
A fire burns on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Fire crews responded Wednesday to the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard but the cause of the fire has not yet been identified. (AP Photo/WMUR, Jean Mackin) MANDATORY CREDIT
KITTERY, Maine (AP) ? Officials vented smoke and noxious fumes from a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard Thursday so they could get inside to assess damage from a fire that took hours to put out.
Firefighters from the shipyard and coastal departments in Maine and New Hampshire spent Wednesday night and early Thursday fighting the fire on the USS Miami. Seven firefighters and crew members were hurt, but not badly. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, commander of Submarine Group Two, said firefighters isolated the flames so they would not spread to nuclear propulsion spaces. There was nuclear fuel on board the sub, but the reactor has been shut down for two months and was unaffected.
The firefighters battled intense heat, smoke and noxious fumes in cramped spaces, Breckenridge said.
"There are a lot of heroes that worked together to save the ship," he said.
Crews responded at about 5:40 p.m. Wednesday to the USS Miami, which was in dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, near Portsmouth, N.H. It was not clear how many people were aboard at the time. The submarine is in the third month of a 20-month maintenance period.
Breckenridge said the fire started in the four forward compartments, which include living and command and control spaces.
No weapons were on board.
The USS Miami has a crew of 13 and 120 enlisted personnel. It arrived at the shipyard on March 1 to undergo maintenance work. It was commissioned in 1990 and its home port is Groton, Conn.
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