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{{Short description|Firefighting vessel}}
{{About|the firefighting vessel|a ship deliberately set on fire|Fire ship}}
[[Image:LFB fireboat.JPG|thumb|right|[[London Fire Brigade]] fireboat, [[River Thames]], London]]
[[Image:WLMK Fireboat.JPG|thumb|right|Toronto Fireboat ''WL Mackenzie'']]
[[Image:Fireboat John J. Harvey at Oyster Bay NY Oyster Festival 2018.jpg|thumb|right|Onboard view of Fireboat [[John J. Harvey]] in [[Tauba Auerbach]] [[dazzle camouflage]] performing a water pumping demonstration in [[Oyster Bay, New York]] with artificial [[rainbow]] visible]]
[[Image:Collision of Costa Concordia 21.jpg|thumb|right|Italian fireboat CLASS M]]
[[File:Feuerloeschboot Frankfurt am Main.jpg|thumb|right|A fireboat of the fire department of [[Frankfurt]], Germany]]
[[Image:Excellence Fire Boat No.6.JPG|thumb|right|HKFS fireboat ''Excellence'']]
[[Image:SFFDFBPhoenix.jpg|thumb|right|San Francisco fireboat ''Phoenix'']]
[[Image:deluge1.jpg|thumb|right|''Deluge'', retired fire fighting tug]]
[[File:Fireboat Ariake.jpg|thumb|[[Tokyo Fire Department]]'s ''Ariake'' fireboat]]
[[File:Cotter2017.jpg|thumb|The [[Edward M. Cotter]] of Buffalo, New York, considered the world's oldest active fireboat]]

A '''fireboat''' or [[Fire-float Pyronaut|fire-float]] is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were [[tugboats]], retrofitted with firefighting equipment.<ref name=NpsDuwamish1988>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/nhl/duwamish.htm
| title=Duwamish Fireboat: National Historic Landmark Study
| publisher=[[National Park Service]]
| year=1988
| author=James Delgado
| author-link=James Delgado
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505234053/http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/nhl/duwamish.htm
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=2009-05-05
}}</ref>
Older designs derived from tugboats and modern fireboats more closely resembling seafaring ships can both be found in service today. Some departments would give their multi-purpose craft the title of "fireboat" also.

They are frequently used for [[firefighting|fighting fires]] on [[Dock (maritime)|docks]] and shore side [[warehouse]]s as they can directly attack fires in the supporting underpinnings of these structures. They also have an effectively unlimited supply of water available, pumping directly from below the hull. Fireboats 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]].

Some modern fireboats are capable of pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute.  An example is Fire Boat #2 of the [[Los Angeles Fire Department]], the ''[[Warner Lawrence]]'', with the capability to pump up to {{convert|38000|USgal/min|m3/s impgal/min}} and up to {{convert|400|ft|m|0}} 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.

Occasionally fireboats are used to carry firefighters, [[Emergency Medical Technician]]s, and a physician with their equipment to islands and other boats. Some may be used as [[icebreaker]]s, like the [[Chicago Fire Department]]'s ''[[Victor L. Schlaeger (fireboat)|Victor L. Schlaeger]]'' which can break 8 to 12&nbsp;inch ice.<ref name=ChicagoOfficialVictorSchlaeger>{{cite news
 |url         = https://www.chicagofireboat.com/BoatGeneralPhotos.asp
 |title       = The Schlaeger
 |publisher   = [[Chicago Fire Department]]
 |year        = 2008
 |archive-date = 2021-04-27
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20210427145250/https://www.chicagofireboat.com/BoatGeneralPhotos.asp
 |url-status  = dead
 |access-date = 2009-11-24
}}</ref>
They may also carry divers or surface water rescue workers. Passengers from ships in danger can be also transferred to various kind of rescue boats. Rescue boats may be used also for oil and chemical destruction on rivers, lakes and seas. For example, the Helsinki Rescue Department in [[Helsinki]], Finland has different types of boats for various kind of firefighting, rescue, and oil destruction tasks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hel.fi/pel|title=Pelastuslaitos|work=Helsingin kaupunki}}</ref>

Also [[hydrocopter]]s, [[rigid-hulled inflatable boat]]s, [[fanboat]]s and even [[hovercraft]] and [[helicopter]]s are used in fire, rescue and medical emergency situations.

Cities with fireboats are usually located on a large body of water with port facilities. Smaller fire departments lacking resources will use a [[rigid-hulled inflatable boat]] or borrow boats from local rescue agencies (EMS, Coast Guard, military).

==History==
The first recorded{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} fire-float was built in 1765 for the Sun Fire Insurance Company in London. This was a [[Hand pump|manual pump]] in a small boat, rowed by its crew to the scene of the fire. A similar craft was built in [[Bristol]] by James Hillhouse for the Imperial Fire Insurance Office in the 1780s. All fire fighting in Bristol was carried out either by private insurance companies or the Docks Company until the formation of the Bristol Fire Brigade as a branch of the police in 1876. In New York City, a small boat with a hand-pump was used to fight marine fires as early as 1809.<ref name="fireboat.org">{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=Fireboats: Then and Now |url=https://www.fireboat.org/FEMAfireboatsthennowMay2003.pdf |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=fireboat.org}}</ref> By the middle of the nineteenth century, self-propelled steam-fire-floats were beginning to be introduced. The FDNY leased the [[salvage tug]] John Fuller as the city's first powered fireboat in 1866.<ref name="fireboat.org"/> Prior to the "John Fuller", as early as the late 1700s, the FDNY used hand-pumpers mounted to barges and large rowboats. The first purpose built steam driven boats were introduced by [[Boston Fire Department]] (''William F. Flanders'') and FDNY (''William F. Havenmeyer'') in 1873 and 1875 respectively. The first European fireboat to appear in Bristol was the ''Fire Queen'', built by [[Shand Mason|Shand Mason & Co.]], London, in 1884 for service in the city docks. The 53&nbsp;ft. (16.61 m.) long craft was equipped with a three-[[Cylinder (engine)|cylinder]] [[Steam pump#Steam pumps|steam pump]] supplying two large hose reels; one of these was replaced with a monitor, or [[water cannon]], in 1900. ''Fire Queen'' served until 1922.

==List of famous fireboats==
{{Incomplete list|date=April 2015}}
* [[Abram S. Hewitt (fireboat)|Abram S. Hewitt]] – [[FDNY]] ([[New York City]]) (1903–1958) (retired and abandon at Witte Marine Scrapyard in [[Rossville, Staten Island]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oboylephoto.com/boatyard/by8.htm |title=Boatyard Ruins – Photographs by Shaun O'Boyle |publisher=Oboylephoto.com |access-date=2012-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211185029/http://www.oboylephoto.com/boatyard/by8.htm |archive-date=2012-02-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Deluge (fireboat, 1923)|Deluge]] – Fireboat/Tug  (New Orleans) (retired)
* [[Duwamish (fireboat)|Duwamish]] – (Seattle) 1909 (retired)
* [[Edward M. Cotter (fire boat)|Edward M. Cotter]] – Fireboat/[[Icebreaker]] ([[Buffalo, New York]]) (active) The oldest active fireboat.
* [[Fireboat No. 1|Tacoma Fireboat No. 1]] –  ([[Tacoma, Washington]]) (retired)
* Fireboat 85 - Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (California). Located in 8th Battalion, [[Pittsburg Marina]]. 
* [[Fire Fighter (fireboat)|Fire Fighter]] – (NYC) 1938
* [[Fire Fighter II]] – [[FDNY]] ([[New York City]]) (2010) the United States' largest fireboat (Active)
* [[Governor Irwin (fireboat)|Governor Irwin]] – Fireboat/Tug  ([[San Francisco]]) (1878–1909) Fireboat participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire. (retired and scrapped)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fireboats/governor_irwin.html |title=San Francisco Fire Department Museum ~ Fireboats ~ Governor Irwin |publisher=Guardiansofthecity.org |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/conflag/06index.html |title=San Francisco Fire Department 1906 Earthquake and Fire Operations |publisher=Sfmuseum.org |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref>
* [[Governor Markham]] – Fireboat/Tug  ([[San Francisco]]) Fireboat participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire. (retired and scrapped)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baycrossings.com/dispnews.asp?id=1515 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825002613/http://www.baycrossings.com/dispnews.asp?id=1515 |archive-date=2006-08-25 |title=:::: Bay Crossings ::::}}</ref>
* {{ship||Hoga|YT-146|2}} – US Navy – Fireboat/Tug  ([[Pearl Harbor]] attack) and City of [[Oakland]] 1940–1996 (retired and under museum ship restoration)
* [[John Fuller (fireboat)|John Fuller]] – steam salvage tug (NYC) – 1866 boat had 2000GPM pump and hose. Considered first modern fireboat.<ref name="fireboat.org"/>
* [[John Kendall (fireboat)|John Kendall]] – (Detroit) – Steam fireboat on Detroit River 1930–1976. (retired, scrapped)
* [[John J. Harvey (fireboat)|John J. Harvey]] – (New York City) (1931–1959) (Temporary reinstatement [[9/11/2001]]) (retired)(Museum ship)
* [[Massey Shaw]] – (London, England) Serving in [[London Fire Brigade]]. Dunkirk [[Little ships of Dunkirk|Little Ship]] rescuing troops during [[Operation Dynamo]] (retired)
* [[Phoenix (fireboat)|Phoenix]] – (San Francisco) (active)
* [[Pyronaut]] – moored at [[Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum]] ([[Bristol]], England) (retired)
* [[Ralph J. Scott (fireboat)|Ralph J. Scott]] – (Los Angeles) (retired)
* [[Alexander Grantham (fireboat)|Sir Alexander Grantham]] – (Hong Kong) (retired)
* [[St. Mungo (fireboat)]] – Glasgow/Strathclyde (retired)
* [[Three Forty Three]] – [[FDNY]] ([[New York City]]) (2009) Country's largest fireboat, twin to [[Fire Fighter II]]. (Active)
* [[Thomas D'Alesandro (fireboat)]] – Baltimore (1956–2016) (retired)
* [[Warner Lawrence]] – Los Angeles (active)
* [[William F. Flanders]] – (Boston) 1873
* [[William F. Havenmeyer]] – (NYC) 1875–1901 (retired)
* [[William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat)|William Lyon Mackenzie]] – ([[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada) (active)
* [[William O. Bird II]] – Sandusky Fire Department ([[Sandusky, Ohio]]) (active)
* [[USS Active (1888)|USS ''Active'' / USS ''Lively'']] – US Navy – Fireboat/Tug (1888–1945) Fireboat participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire. (retired and scrapped)<ref name="sfmuseum.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/usn.html |title=Navy Firefighting Operations |publisher=Sfmuseum.org |date=1906-04-30 |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref>
* {{USS|Fortune|1865|6}} – US Army / US Navy – Fireboat/Tug (1865–1922) Fireboat participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire. (retired and scrapped)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/quake/navy.html |title=USFS Chicago 1906 Fire Operations |publisher=Sfmuseum.org |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref>
* {{USS|Leslie|1861|6}} – US Army / US Navy – Fireboat/Tug (1861) Fireboat participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire. (retired and scrapped)<ref name="sfmuseum.org"/>

==Departments with fireboats==
{{More citations needed section|date=November 2019}}
{{Incomplete list|date=April 2015}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Department
!Total # of boats
!Details
|-
|Abingdon (MD) Fire Company
|1
|
|-
|Albany (NY) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
 
|Alexandria (VA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Annapolis (MD) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Anne Arundel County (MD) Fire Department
|3
|
|-
|Atlantic City (NJ) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Audubon (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Baltimore City Fire Department]]
|3
|
|-
|Bayonne (NJ) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Bellingham (WA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Bonita Springs (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Boston Fire Department]]
|2
|
|-
|Bowers (DE) Fire Company
|1
|
|-
|Bowleys Quarters (MD) Volunteer Fire Department
|4
|
|-
|Brevard County (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Bridgeport (CT) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Broward County (FL) Sheriff's Office Fire Rescue
|1
|
|-
|[[Buffalo Fire Department]]
|1
|[[Edward M. Cotter]]
|-
|Camden (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Cape Coral (FL) Fire Department
|3
|
|-
|Carteret (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Charlotte Fire Department]]
|1

|
|-
|Charlotte County (FL) Fire Department
|3
|
|-
|[[Chicago Fire Department]]
|2
|
|-
|[[Cincinnati Fire Department]]
|3
|
|-
|Clearwater (FL) Fire and Rescue Department
|1
|
|-
|Cleveland Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Contra Costa County(CA) Fire Protection District
|1
|
|-
|Cranston (RI) Fire Department
|1
|-
|Daytona Beach (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Detroit Fire Department]]
|2
|
|-
|Duluth (MN) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Dunedin (FL) Fire Rescue
|1
|
|-
|East Providence (RI) Fire Department
|1
|-
|Elizabeth (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Edgewater (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Estero (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department]]
|2
|1 frontline, 1 reserve
|-
|Fairfield (CT) Fire Department\
|1
|
|-
|Fall River (MA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Fort Lauderdale (FL) Fire Rescue
|3
|
|-
|Fort Myers (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Greater Naples (FL) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|[[General Fire Brigade of Guangdong]]
|1
|
|-
|[[Fire Services in York Region#Georgina|Georgina Fire and Rescue]]
|1
|uses a [[York Regional Police]] patrol boat equipped with water nozzle
|-
|Haletown (TN) Fire Department
|1
|Refurbrished US Army Corps of Engineers Survey Boat, Cruiser 1 "The Blansett"
|-
|Harrisburg (PA) Bureau Of Fire
|1
|
|-
|Hartford (CT) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Hendersonville (TN) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Hillsborough County (FL) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Hoboken (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Hong Kong Fire Services]]/[[Hong Kong International Airport]]
|12
|8, and 4 support vessels (command, 2 diving units, speedboat)
|-
|[[Honolulu Fire Department]]
|1
|
|-
|Iona-McGregor (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department]]
|3
|
|-
|Jersey City (NJ) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Kearny (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Key West (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Lake Ozark (MO) Fire Protection District
|2
|
|-
|Linden (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[London Fire Brigade]]
|2
|
|-
|Longboat Key (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Los Angeles Fire Department]]
|5
|
|-
|[[Macau International Airport]] Fire Services
|1
|
|-
|[[Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department]]
|1
|
|-
|Marbury (MD) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Marco Island (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Marseille Naval Fire Battalion]]
|2
|
|-
|[[Massachusetts Port Authority]]
|3
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capecodfd.com/pages%20special/Fireboats%2007.htm |title=Massport Boston Boat |publisher=Capecodfd.com |date=2011-11-23 |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref> with third delivered September 2011.<ref>{{cite web |author=Carla Allen |url=http://www.thevanguard.ca/Business/Fisheries/2010-07-27/article-1619573/Meteghan-company-building-fireboat-/1 |title=Meteghan company building fireboat |publisher=Thevanguard.ca |access-date=2012-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325004840/http://www.thevanguard.ca/Business/Fisheries/2010-07-27/article-1619573/Meteghan-company-building-fireboat-/1|archive-date=2012-03-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-668987 |title=5.3 Million Dollar Massport Airport Fireboat Ready to Launch |publisher=iReport.cnn.com |date=2011-09-06 |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ral.ca/news/raindrops/raindrops-issue1.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-09-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402104114/http://www.ral.ca/news/raindrops/raindrops-issue1.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-02 }}</ref> 
|-
|Matlacha (FL) Fire Rescue
|1
|
|-
|Miami (FL) Fire Department
|4
|
|-
|Miami Beach (FL) Fire Rescue
|1
|
|-
|Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department
|2
|
|-
|Mid-County (MO) Fire Protection District
|2
|
|-
|Milwaukee (WI) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Nagasaki (Japan) Fire Department
|1 
|
|-
|Narragansett (RI) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Nashville (TN) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Newark (NJ) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|New Haven (CT) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|New Orleans (LA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[New York City Fire Department#Fireboats|New York City Fire Department (FDNY)]]
|10
|3, plus two reserve, two spare, as well as three smaller boats activated during the summer months
|-
|Newport News (VA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Niceville (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Norfolk (VA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|North Charleston (SC) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|North Collier County (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|North Hudson (NJ) Regional Fire & Rescue
|2
|
|-
|North Point Edgemere (MD) Vol. Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Norwalk (CT) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Osage Beach (MO) Fire Protection District
|1
|
|-
|Palm Beach County (FL) Fire Rescue
|1
|
|-
|Palm Harbor (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Panama City (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Pensacola (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Perth Amboy (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Philadelphia Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire
|1
|
|-
|Port Alberni Fire Department (BC)
|1
|
|-
|Port Canaveral (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
| Port of Houston Authority Marine Fire Department
|3
|
|-
| Portland (ME) Fire Department
|1
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aftheriault.com/en/boats/aluminum.htm |title=A.F.Theriault |publisher=A.F.Theriault |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=CA |url=http://www.novanewsnow.com/Manufacturing/2009-07-03/article-612394/Shipyard-builds-fireboat-for-Portland/1 |title=Shipyard builds fireboat for Portland – Manufacturing |publisher=Nova News Now |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref>
|-
|Portland (OR) Fire & Rescue
|2
|
|-
|Portsmouth (VA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Poulsbo Fire Department (WA)/ Kitsap County Fire District #18
|1

|
|-
|Prince George's County (MD) Fire/EMS Department
|1
|
|-
|Prince George's County (MD) Volunteer Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Providence (RI) Fire Department
|1
|
|-|
|Red Bank (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-|
|Rochester (NY) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|San Bernardino County (CA) Fire Department
|4
|
|-
|[[San Francisco Fire Department]]
|3
|
|-
|Safety Harbor (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[San Diego Fire-Rescue Department]]
|6
|
|-
|Sandusky (OH) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Sanford (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Sanibel Island (FL) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|São Paulo (Brazil) Firefighting Corp.
|2
|
|-
|Scappoose (OR) Fire District
|1
|
|-
|Sea Isle City (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Seattle Fire Department
|3
|1 reserve
|-
|Secaucus (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Seward (AK) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Management Department]]
|0
|1 on order<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110105000717 |title=Firefighters to get uncapsizable boat |language=ko |publisher=Koreaherald.com |date=2011-01-05 |access-date=2012-03-08}}</ref>
|-
|[[Singapore Changi Airport]] Airport Emergency Services Sea
|2
|2 hovercraft used for marine rescue and firefighting
|-
|[[St. Louis Fire Department]]
|4
|
|-
|South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
|1
|
|-
|Stamford (CT) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Susquehanna Hose Company of Havre de Grace (MD)
|1
|
|-
|Syracuse (NY) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Tacoma (WA) Fire Department
|2
|
|-
|Tampa (FL) Fire/Rescue Department
|4
|
|-
|Tarrytown (NY) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Toronto Fire Services]]
|3
|2nd boat is a light utility boat and third built fitted to replace current utility boat.  See [[Fireboats of Toronto]].
|-
|Tinicum (PA) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Tokyo Fire Department]]
|10
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tfd.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/ts/soubi/ship/index.html |title=消防装備 (fire boats) |language=ja |publisher=Tokyo Fire Department |access-date=2025-06-01}}</ref>
|-
|Trenton (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|[[Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services]]
|5
|
|-
|[[Virginia Beach Fire Department]]
|1
|
|-
|Warwick (RI) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Washington (D.C.) Fire Department
|3
|
|-
|Westville (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Wilmington (DE) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Water Witch (MD) Fire Company
|1
|
|-
|Wilmington (NC) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Woodbridge (NJ) Fire Department
|1
|
|-
|Yonkers (NY) Fire Department
|1
|
|}

==Government and military with fireboats==
[[File:Japan Coast Guard PC23.jpg|thumb|[[Japan Coast Guard]] patrol boat with water cannons discharging]]
* [[Japan Coast Guard]] – 9; 230 patrol boats with water cannons or firefighting support systems
* [[United States Coast Guard]]
* [[Fire class fireboat]] of the [[Royal Canadian Navy|Royal Canadian Navy's]] auxiliary fleet (2):
**[[CFAV Firebird (YTR 561)|CFAV ''Firebird'' (YTR 561)]]
**[[CFAV Firebrand (YTR 562)|CFAV ''Firebrand'' (YTR 562)]]

==See also==
*[[Fireboat Station]], Tacoma, Washington
*[[Lambeth Fire Station]], London, England, with a river fireboat station
* [[Firefighter]]
* [[Firefighting apparatus]]
* [[Police watercraft]]
* [[Rigid-hulled inflatable boat]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=n-MDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Popular+Mechanics+1931+curtiss&pg=PA794 "Smoke Eaters On Water", May 1931, Popular Science] detailed article about New York city fireboats of that era
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=79oDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Popular+Science+1933+plane+%22Popular+Mechanics%22&pg=PA193 "Diesel Fire Boat Shoots Seventeen Streams"] ''Popular Mechanics'', August 1937—i.e. article on Chicago Fire Department fire boat [[Fred A. Busse (fireboat)]]
* [https://statenisland.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/FB59B87C-10B0-4345-8D1A-448943466335 Painting of the fireboat “The New Yorker,” 1893, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database]
* Book: "[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786935880/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1786935880&linkId=e119e8253b9247893d5a8e2d9b870c18 Fire - floats and fireboats]" - David C Pike 
* [http://www.titalcompany.com/eng/fire-boat-pk-10-130;id=FB59BC-10B0-4345-8D1A-448943466335; type=Manufacturer “New type of fireboats”]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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[[Category:Boat types]]
[[Category:Fire service vehicles|Boat]]
[[Category:Port infrastructure]]
[[Category:Ship types]]