Fire Boats
VFRS has 2 aluminum fire boats, Fireboat two and five. They were designed by naval engineering firm Robert Allan Ltd. They are two of 3 shared boats by municipalities within the Port of Vancouver area. Port Moody and Burnaby share the other boat. North Vancouver City and District Fire Departments used to each have a boat until 2011 when they cut the service.
Former fireboats:
- J.H. Carlisle 1928-1971
Read more about this topic: Vancouver Fire And Rescue Services
Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or boats:
“I haven’t much opinion of words.... They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)
“Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)