California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
's major ports have long traditions of maintaining dedicated
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 equipmen ...
s, and, soon after
Al Qaeda's attack on September 1st, 2001,
FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Exec ...
started issuing
port security grants equipping fireboats for Californias smaller ports, that are also equipped to work when
hazardous material
Dangerous goods, abbreviated DG, are substances that when transported are a risk to health, safety, property or the environment. Certain dangerous goods that pose risks even when not being transported are known as hazardous materials ( syllabi ...
s have been released.
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See also
* Fireboats of Long Beach, California
* Fireboats of San Diego
* Fireboats of San Francisco As a major port a number of fireboats of San Francisco have been operated by the city of San Francisco since 1878.
United States Navy fireboats , and were employed to fight the fires triggered in the aftermath of the disastrous 1906 San Francis ...
References
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Water transportation in California
Firefighting in California