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BOATBUILDING

San Francisco Fire

Department’s

New

Fireboat

Vigor Indus- trial nears com- pletion of San Fran- cisco’s ? rst new ? reboat in 60 years. The exciting, cutting

Photo: Jensen Marine Consultants edge vessel was worth waiting for.

By Peter Ong hen ? nished, the boat’s going to be pretty ocean directly to the Auxiliary Water System (AWS), ? ve spectacular,” said Will Lietzenmayer, Co- large salt-water inlet manifolds along the waterfront. Each

Project Manager and Project Engineer of the AWS manifold can have ten ? reboat hoses attached to it.

“W new San Francisco Fire Department’s (SFFD) 88’ x 25’ NFPA Two SFFD hose tenders would create a portable above-

Type II ? reboat from his Vigor Industrial’s Seattle, Washing- ground hydrant and piping system to deliver the water ton of? ce. “It’s essentially a huge super-pumper. It can pump from the ? reboat to the intended ? res. SFFD already has water all the way up Nob Hill (elevation of 407 feet).” two ? reboats, the Phoenix and the Guardian to do such

Designed by the San Francisco Fire Department as a duty, but the Phoenix was built in 1954 and the Guardian mobile pumping station, the new ? reboat arose from the in 1950. This ? reboat, built by Vigor, will therefore be the need for additional earthquake ? re relief. In the event that ? rst new ? reboat for San Francisco in about 60 years and an earthquake knocks out San Francisco’s water mains, the will have about the same dimensions as its sisters Phoenix new ? reboat could pump water directly from the Bay or (89’ x 19’) and Guardian (89’ x 20’).

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