Navy puts out ship fire after four days

A fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard at a San Diego naval base has been extinguished after a four-day battle against one of the worst infernos to rip through a US warship outside of combat in recent years, the Navy said yesterday. Rear Admiral Philip E. Sobeck called the last 24 hours of the firefight aboard the amphibious assault ship ‘‘amazing,’’ with the fire reaching up to 650 degrees Celsius in parts of the vessel. The ship also shifted and tilted toward the pier on Thursday under the weight of the water that had been dumped on it, forcing a brief evacuation of sailors.