A boat carrying firefighters and equipment for fighting large fires on board ships and in waterside areas.
the city dispatched a fireboat as a precaution
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It began with fire hoses, and then was fought with fire boats - and finally, giant industrial pumps.
Soon afterwards, a fire-boat arrived to extinguish the last remaining chunks of burning debris.
The aging fireboat has responded to thousands of distress calls in its half-century of service.
Without a fireboat we may have lost the railroad bridge, as the access to this area is quite restrictive to large fire apparatus.
The boat was replaced in 1928 and is believed to have later served as a fireboat during the Second World War.
The opera house burned down in 1995, in part because the adjacent canals had been drained, and the fire boats could not reach the scene.
The currents were so bad, they couldn't get fire boats through here to rescue people at one point.
When the other ship suddenly caught fire and sent SOS signals by flashlight, the fireboat shot out water to put out the fire.
He said the new fireboat can carry a full crew of firefighters, pumps 2,500 gallons of water a minute, and has a 20-inch draft that allows it to function in shallow water.
He said the new fireboat should return to service in a few weeks.