- A
fireboat or fire-float is a
specialized watercraft with
pumps and
nozzles designed for
fighting s****line and
shipboard fires. The
first fireboats, dating...
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military fireboats,
tried but
failed to stop the
horrific fires which swept the city
after the 1906 San
Francisco earthquake. In 1909, two new
fireboats were...
- LAFD
which operates 5
fireboats to
provide fire
protection for
ships and
dockside structures.
Fireboat 1,
Fireboat 3 and
Fireboat 5 are
identical 39-foot...
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celebrate the 2019
Great Pacific Air Show.
Fireboats of Long Beach,
California Fireboats of
California "Powerful
fireboat christened at Foss Maritime". Marine...
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Vigilance is a
fireboat operated by Long Beach, California. It is the
second of two
large fireboats Long
Beach commissioned and the
largest on
North America's...
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Francisco Fire
Department (SFFD)
currently relies on two old and
refurbished fireboats, the
Phoenix (built in 1954) and the
Guardian (built in 1951) to serve...
- control,
Fireboat No. 1 was put up on a
permanent dry
berth at a
public beach near Tacoma's Old Town neighborhood. She is one of only five
fireboats designated...
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dedicated fireboats, and, soon
after Al Qaeda's
attack on
September 1st, 2001, FEMA
started issuing port
security grants equipping fireboats for California's...
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patrol craft. The two
largest fireboats,
Firefighter II and
Three Forty Three, are
among the
largest and most
powerful fireboats in the world. At 20 knots...
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Chicago has
operated dedicated fireboats since 1877. In 1986, the
Chicago Tribune offered a
history of Chicago's
larger fireboats, when the
Chicago Fire Department...