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San Francisco gets world’s first floating fire station

Seemingly overnight, a new structure appeared on San Francisco’s waterfront back in December. Situated at Pier 22½ just behind the historic Firehouse 35 and nestled beside the Bay Bridge, this floating building

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New fireboat is first Moose on Great Lakes

Vallejo, Calif., based Moose Boats has delivered a new M2-38 fireboat to the Rochester (N.Y.) Fire Department. Rochester is on the southern shore of Lake Ontario and its new fireboat, Marine 1,

Zycraft moves ahead on unmanned fireboat development

Singapore-based unmanned surface vessel developer Zycraft USV PL has now completed Phase II engineering development of an 8 meter long unmanned fireboat. This follows completion of Phase I which started in 2019,

MetalCraft Marine delivers high performance fireboat to Vietnam

MetalCraft Marine, which has yards in both Watertown, N.Y., and Kingston, Ontario, reports that its Kingston yard has delivered a Firestorm 36 Mk II fireboat to the Fire Department of Quang Ninh

Silver Ships delivers 36-foot fire rescue RHIB to Eglin AFB

A first-of-its-kind fire rescue boat recently delivered to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida by Silver Ships, Theodore, Ala., is the first Ambar 36-foot (11-meter) firefighting RHIB Silver Ships has built—similar fire

Kentucky fireboat gets a permanent home

The City of Covington, Ky., reports that its 35 ft fireboat is to get a new, permanent home. Covington’s Fire Boat 1 — powered by two 300-horsepower Evinrude E-TEC engines and mounting

Robert Allan designs two river service fireboats for Bangladesh

The Khulna Shipyard in Bangladesh is building two Robert Allan Ltd. designed fireboats. They are under construction for the Bangladesh Navy, which uses the old-style term “fire floats” to describe them. There

VIDEO: Fireboat for Kuwait is packed with innovations

A FireStorm 50’ fireboat delivered by Kingston, Ontario, headquartered MetalCraft Marine Inc. (MCM) to the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate incorporates the very latest in technology available for fire fighting and search and

Secaucus FD puts Lake Assault fireboat into service

The Secaucus Fire Department, in Hudson County, N.J., placed a 28-foot Lake Assault Boats firefighting and rescue craft into service earlier this summer. The department’s firefighting and emergency response area includes a

Port Canaveral gets $1.5 million in state funding for new fireboat

The Canaveral Port Authority will receive $1.5 million in funding from the State of Florida to support the acquisition of a specialized fireboat to provide marine firefighting and rescue capabilities for Port

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