The ''David Campbell'' was a long-serving fireboat built in 1928 for Oregon's

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. She underwent an extensive rebuild, in 1976. In 2010 Portland acquired a new smaller, faster fireboat, the ''

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'', named after the two children who were thrown off the Sellwood Bridge in 2009, when it took the ''David Campbell'' 44 minutes to get to scene to provide medical care. The ''David Campbell'' had two identical sister ships, the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. She remained in operation as late as 2012.

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* {{Commonscat-inline, David Campbell (ship, 1927) Fireboats of Oregon