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- 1 2 Patty Hastings (2014-03-14). "Clark County Fire & Rescue launches new fireboat: Family gets ride on boat bearing name 'Mary Firstenburg'". The Columbian . Retrieved 2017-03-20.
Bruce Firstenburg, 71, broke a bottle of champagne over Clark County Fire & Rescue’s new rescue boat Friday afternoon in the Ridgefield Marina.
CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) - 1 2 Steve Kadell (2014-03-19). "Clark County Fire & Rescue christens new boat: Boat purchased entirely with Federal Emergency Management Agency funds". The Reflector. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
Bruce Firstenberg, son of former community benefactor E. W. Firstenberg and his wife Mary, swung a champagne bottle at the hull and the resounding crack was greeted with applause. Just like that, the $370,000 boat purchased entirely with Federal Emergency Management Agency money through the Homeland Security program, was officially ready for business.
CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - 1 2 Brian Guavin (2014-07-31). "Small Sounder-model fireboat boasts big water capacity, speed". Professional Mariner . Retrieved 2017-03-20.
The boat is a 30-foot Sounder model from North River Boats, a bustling operation in the unlikely inland location of Roseburg, Ore. Length from push bar on the bow to crash bar on the stern is 37 feet.
CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) - ↑ "Mary Firstenburg: Featured". Daily Columbian. 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
She and her husband made significant charitable gifts to local nonprofits in SW Washington over the past 20 years. The Firstenburg Community Center, The Firstenburg Fountain and Firstenburg Student Commons at Washington State University Vancouver and E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower at Southwest Washington Medical Center were named after the couple in thanks for their generosity. In 2008, Innovative Services Northwest named their new headquarters the Mary Firstenburg Family Center.
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