Chicago has operated dedicated fireboats since 1877. In 1986, the Chicago Tribune offered a history of Chicago's larger fireboats, when the Chicago Fire...
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A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating...
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powerful fireboat afloat. She was one of the first fireboats to have a steel hull at a time when other fireboats were built of wood. The Illinois was struck by...
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response services in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago. The Chicago Fire Department is the second-largest...
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Victor L. Schlaeger (redirect from Victor L. Schlaeger (fireboat))
Schlaeger was a fireboat operated by the Chicago Fire Department from 1949 to 2010. While the city of Chicago had once operated nine powered fireboats, in the...
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Christopher Wheatley (category Fireboats of Chicago)
breaking ice on the Chicago River, while the James J. Versluis was in charge of breaking ice on Lake Michigan. Fireboats of Chicago Sharon Hill (2011-04-21)...
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Geyser was a steam powered fireboat built for Chicago, Illinois in 1886. Chicago had operated three earlier vessels, as fireboats, but they had all been retrofits...
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Joseph Medill (1908) (category Fireboats of Chicago)
The fireboat Joseph Medill was commissioned in Chicago, Illinois, in 1908, and was the first of two Chicago fireboats of that name—the second being commissioned...
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extent. Fireboats of Baltimore Fireboats of Boston Fireboats of Chicago Fireboats of Connecticut Fireboats of Detroit Fireboats of Duluth Fireboats of Houston...
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the Philadelphia city government has operated multiple fireboats. "Special Report: Fireboats; Then and Now" (PDF). FEMA. p. 18, 19, 27. Archived (PDF)...
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