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The Boston Fire Department was established as the first paid fire department in the United States, and is the largest municipal fire department in New England serving approximately 685,000 people living in the 48.4-square-mile (125 km 2) area of the city proper. Additionally, it actively participates in MetroFire, the fire services mutual aid ...
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to 3.1 million people in sixty-one municipalities and more than 5,500 large industrial users in the eastern and central parts of the state, primarily in the Boston area.
The pumping station’s Leavitt and Worthington Engines. In the 1850s, Boston began modernizing its water supply, which at the time was a combination of wells, pond water, and downhill piping from a Natick reservoir. [3] In the 1870s, Boston city leaders decided the city needed to scale up its water filtration and pumping and began looking into ...
The dam controls the surface level of the river basin as well its tributaries upstream, including the Back Bay Fens and Muddy River and to prevent sea water from entering the Charles River freshwater basin during high tides. It replaced the 1910 Charles River Dam upstream, now the site of the Boston Museum of Science. The 1910 dam includes two ...
In 2016, a federal report found the Boston Fire Department’s lack of training to fight wind-driven fires, inadequate staffing, and failure to adequately assess risk played a role in the blaze.
This standard specified that each fire hydrant have one large diameter pumper (a.k.a. "steamer") port 4.5 inches in diameter with 4 threads per inch (meant for supplying water to a pumper truck or other high-capacity distribution device), and two medium-diameter ports, each 2.5 inches with 7.5 threads per inch, meant for supplying individual ...
Engine House No. 34 is a historic fire station at 444 Western Avenue near the corner of Waverly Street in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The station, a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick and brownstone structure, was designed by Charles J. Bateman and built in 1888.
A water tender operated by the United States Air Force Fire Protection. A water tender, sometimes known as a water tanker, is a type of firefighting apparatus that specializes in the transport of water from a water source to a fire scene. [1] Water tenders are capable of drafting water from a stream, lake or hydrant.