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Washington<\/em> \u2014 A major fire broke out earlier this week on the USS Higgins, a guided-missile destroyer and a mainstay of the Navy’s forward presence in Asia, according to U.S. officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n The fire knocked out electricity and propulsion on the destroyer, one of the officials told CBS News, speaking under condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n No injuries to U.S. service members had been reported as of Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Details of how the fire started and the exact location of the Higgins in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) were not readily available.\u00a0<\/p>\n Details regarding what sections of the ship were damaged and how long it will take to repair were also not available.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Higgins was ported in Singapore as of February, according to AIS Marine vessel data.<\/p>\n A defense department official said in a statement: “An electrical fire occurred aboard the USS Higgins while at sea in the Indo-Pacific. The fire was immediately extinguished by the crew, and there are no reported injuries. The situation is under control, and the ship is currently underway. The cause is under investigation.”<\/p>\n The U.S. Navy classified it as an “electrical casualty,” which means it wasn’t a large fire but a short circuit in one the ship’s generators.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, a small fire broke out on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, injuring eight U.S. Navy sailors, the U.S. Naval Institute reported. Separately, a fire broke out in the laundry spaces aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, injuring two sailors.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Ford and its accompanying strike group are expected<\/span> to leave the Middle East in the coming days, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. The Ford was one of three carriers operating in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Higgins, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, is part of the Navy’s forward deployed forces assigned to the 7th Fleet \u2014 a key component of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, which oversees American military operations across more than half the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n The ship is named after Marine Col. William Higgins, a veteran of the Vietnam war, who was part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon when he was kidnapped in Feb. 1988 by Hezbollah-linked militants. Higgins was tortured, interrogated and then was murdered. He was promoted to his current rank while in captivity. Higgins’ remains were found on a Beirut street in Dec. 1991.\u00a0<\/p>\n