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The Christopher Wheatley is a fireboat delivered to the Chicago Fire Department in 2011. When she was delivered in April 2011, she was the first new fireboat to serve the city in sixty years. She replaced the Victor L. Schlaeger.
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Harrisburg Bureau of Fire (HBF) is a firefighting agency that is located in and serves Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is a career firefighting agency with at least 15 firefighters and fire officers on duty at any given time, supplemented with volunteer staffing as well. Everyday duties for the Bureau include fire suppression, emergency medical services, tactical rescue, urban search and rescue, water rescue, hazardous materials response, fire prevention, fire codes enforcement, and public safety educations.
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- 1 2 3 4 "Fire Boat: The Victoria Fire Department is proud to be able to serve Victoria's citizens and visitors with its custom-built, multi-purpose, high speed fire boat, the Protector". Victoria Fire Department. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ↑ "Victoria Fire Hall 2 – 650 Michigan St". BC Fire Trucks. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ↑ "Victoria BC's New Fireboat". A-Channel via YouTube . 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- 1 2 3 "Victoria Fire Department's new High-Speed 30 foot Aluminum Fireboat". Metalcraft Marine. 2008-04-28. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ↑ Lindsay Kines (2013-07-29). "Unconscious woman rescued from Gorge Waterway remains in critical condition". Victoria Times Colonist . Retrieved 2017-06-25.
Victoria firefighters used their fire boat and a high-angle ladder truck to pour water onto the barge.
- ↑ Bill Cleverley (2017-06-24). "Victoria Fire Department won't investigate cause of Friday's barge fire". Victoria Times Colonist . Retrieved 2017-06-25.
Victoria firefighters used their fire boat and a high-angle ladder truck to pour water onto the barge.
- ↑ "Car barge catches fire in Victoria's Gorge Waterway: Flames visible as smoke pours out of barge filled with crushed cars". CBC News . 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
Kirby said fire crews, including a fire boat, responded quickly and managed to knock down the flames.