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The vessel served the New York City Fire Department for her first fifteen years before being sold to the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department in 1977. [3] When she was built, she was both faster than her older fleet-mates, and had a shallower draft, making her well-suited to be stationed in a region of the Hudson ...
One of the highlights of the summer is East Hampton Fire Department fireworks display at Main Beach, usually held the Saturday night closest to July 4. The fireworks displays have generated controversy since 2005, when they were postponed because they were considered disruptive to the nearby nesting of the endangered piping plover .
From 1955-2010, the John D. McKean Fireboat responded to many of New York City's most notable incidents, including 9/11 and the Miracle on the Hudson.
Multiple fireboats of the New York City Fire Department, including Fire Fighter and the John J. Harvey (the latter of which had been retired since 1995), were among the first boats on the scene and provided firefighting activities from the water, pumping harbour water at high pressure to the hoses of land-based firefighters when other water was ...
HAMPTON — Fire Prevention Officer Matt Newton said he is no lifeguard when it comes to water rescue, but he was ready to jump in the ocean when two children became caught in a rip current ...
Governor Alfred E. Smith was a fireboat first operated by the Fire Department of New York in 1961. [1] She was the last of four sister ships. [2] In 1970 the Department planned to retire her, but, instead, she was placed in reserve. She was finally retired on October 21, 2016. [3]
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The Abram S. Hewitt was a coal-powered fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City from 1903 to 1958. [1] [2] [3] She was the department's last coal-powered vessel and had a pumping capacity of 7,000 gallons per minute. She was launched on July 11, 1903, at the shipyards of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New ...