Fireboat

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The fireboat Guardian was a gift of survivors of the Loma Prieta earthquake to supplement San Francisco's fireboat Phoenix.

Recently refurbished, the fireboat Phoenix has seen long service for the San Francisco Fire Department.

City of Toronto fireboat "William Lyon Mackenzie"

Fireboat in Venice, Italy

Fireboat in Venice, Italy rushing to action (Photo: Kenya Allmond)

A fireboat is a specialized watercraft, often resembling a tugboat, with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. They are particularly useful for fighting fires on docks and shore side warehouses as they can directly attack fires in the supporting underpinnings of these structures. They also have an unlimited supply of water available, pumping directly from the harbor and can be used to assist shore based firefighters when other water is in low supply or is unavailable, for example, due to earthquake breakage of water mains, as happened in San Francisco due to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Modern fireboats are capable of pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute. The most technologically advanced of these is Fire Boat #2 of the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Warner Lawrence, with the capability to pump up to 38,000 US gallons per minute (2 m³/s) and up to 400 feet (120 m) in the air.

Fireboats are most usually seen by the public when welcoming a fleet or historical ships with a display of their water moving capabilities, throwing large arcs of water in every direction.

[edit] List of modern fire boats

[edit] Asia

[edit] Hong Kong

Fireboat 1 (Elite)
Fireboat 2
Fireboat 3
Fireboat 4
Fireboat 5
Fireboat 6 (Excellence)
Fireboat 7
Fireboat 8
Command Boat (CB1 and CB2)
Diving Support Vessel (D1)
Diving Support Speed Boat (DV2 and DV3)
Speed Boat (SB1-6)
Sir Alexander Grantham - retired

[edit] Europe

[edit] Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jan van der Heide

[edit] Zaandam, Netherlands

Blusboot De Weer

[edit] Rotterdam, Netherlands

RPA 2
RPA 10
RPA 11
RPA 12
RPA 13
RPA 14
RPA 15
RPA 16

[edit] Oslo, Norway

Erling Hagen #72

[edit] North America

[edit] Victoria, British Columbia

Rocket

[edit] Langford, British Columbia

#714

[edit] Toronto, Ontario

William Lyon Mackenzie

[edit] Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Fire Marine 5

[edit] Bayport, New York

Bayport Fire Department 3-14-26 Rescue boat

Bayport Fire Department Fire Boat

[edit] Buffalo, New York

Edward M. Cotter

[edit] New York, New York

Firefighter
Governor Alfred E. Smith
John D. McKean
Kevin C. Kane
John J. Harvey

[edit] Los Angeles, California

[edit] San Francisco, California

Phoenix
Guardian

[edit] Seattle, Washington

Chief Seattle
Leschi (Entering Service In Jan. 2007)

[edit] Historic Fireboats

Pyronaut and steam tug Mayflower, outside the Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum

[edit] See also

Model Fire Boats
Fire apparatus
Firefighter

[edit] External links

[1] Voluntaire Marine firefighters Kring 6 Blusboot de Weer
Los Angeles Fire Department Fireboats
Former NYFD Fireboat John J. Harvey
Exciting stories from the San Francisco Fire Museum: San Francisco Fire Department Fireboat Phoenix fights Marina District fire after the Loma Prieta earthquake; fireboat Guardian brought to San Francisco from Vancouver through a storm.
Puget Sound Fireboat Foundation, Seattle's Historic Fireboat Duwamish
MetalCraft Marine Fireboats photos and videos
Model Fire Boats Website

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