For much of the late 19th and early 20th century,
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
maintained a fleet of ten
fireboat
A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipme ...
s. In recent decades technology has improved to where smaller boats can provide the pumping capacity that required a large boat in the past.
[ These smaller boats require smaller crews, and the crews themselves require less training. Like many other cities the ]FDNY
The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is an American department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection services, technical rescue/special operations services, ...
operates a fleet with a smaller number of large fireboats, supplemented by a number of unnamed boats in the 10 meter range.[
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Water transportation in New York City