Fire / Rescue Boat 2

Baltimore's Fireboats

..The 30 foot, 1,500 g.p.m., Fire/Rescue Boat No.2 (Reserve) is identical to Fire/Rescue Boat No.1, with both being built at the same time. The No.2 boat has also been in service with the Baltimore City Fire Department Marine Division for more than 3 years, serving her entire career, to this point, at the Fort McHenry Fireboat Station.
..This vessel is equipped in the same manner as the No. 1 boat, and in addition to being placed in service when the 1st line boat is down for repairs, it can also be activated as a second boat for training sessions, or major marine incidents in the harbor.
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The characteristics of Fire/Rescue Boat No.2 are as follows:

Builder – SeaArk Marine Inc., Monticello, AR.

Commissioned – by the Fire Department as Fire/Rescue 2 on January 2, 2004

Cost - $286,000 ( with trailer )

Registration Number – MD 2425 A

Construction - all aluminum

Length overall - 30 feet ( excluding motors )

Beam - 10 feet

Full load draft - 1 foot 6 inches

Weight - 10,000 lbs.

Fuel capacity - two tanks with total capacity of 150 gallons of gasoline

Maximum speed - 40+ m.p.h.

Propulsion - Two (2), Honda BF225A, V-6, 4-stroke, gasoline outboards, rated 225 HP. each.

Fire pumps - one (1) Hale, single stage centrifugal, rated 1,500 gpm. at 150 psi., driven direct
------------------by a GM Marine 350, V-8 gasoline engine

Discharge outlets - six (6) 2˝”, 4 on aft work deck, and 2 on forward deck

Monitor pipes - one(1), Akron, on forward deck

Foam - 15 gallons of 3% AFFF ( three 5 gallon buckets )

Hose - 250' of 1 ľ” + two 8' sections of 1 ľ” to direct from boat

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