https://news.usni.org/2026/03/17/uss-gerald-r-ford-headed-to-souda-bay-for-repairs-after-fire
30 hours to fight a fire is a long time. That ship has been on deployment for 9 months already, and apparently their deployment may be extended to April, or even May, which would be a year, longest deployment in the modern era.
Those seem like the two most plausible explanations.