Officers devoted two new Port of Lengthy Seashore fireboat stations which can be enhancing the Lengthy Seashore Fireplace Division’s waterside and landside emergency response capabilities, higher safeguarding visiting ships, cargo and waterfront staff.
The amenities – Fireboat Station 15 and Fireboat Station 20 – are the merchandise of a $109 million Port of Lengthy Seashore program to protect enterprise continuity, safety and financial pursuits. With an anticipated lifespan of fifty years, each stations have been accredited for building in 2017 by the Lengthy Seashore Board of Harbor Commissioners and funded by Port revenues.
“These fireboat stations will present an vital and invaluable security service to our Port,” mentioned Lengthy Seashore Mayor Rex Richardson. “Our firefighters at the moment are geared up with essentially the most subtle amenities and emergency response capabilities to guard our Port, its worthwhile property and our waterfront workforce.”
“It is a nice day for the Port of Lengthy Seashore, as we have fun completion of a long-needed main revamping of fireplace security amenities and tools within the harbor,” mentioned Port of Lengthy Seashore CEO Mario Cordero. “Fireboat Stations 15 and 20 and our fireboats vastly enhance our preparedness and resilience within the face of emergencies.”
“These new stations may have an enduring and constructive impression on our means to shortly reply to emergencies,” mentioned Lengthy Seashore Harbor Fee President Bobby Olvera Jr. “We look ahead to our persevering with partnership with the Lengthy Seashore Fireplace Division to make the Port a protected place to work and do enterprise.”
“Our new hearth stations are state-of-the-art public security buildings that may function bases of operations for any incident throughout the Port and all through the area,” mentioned Lengthy Seashore Fireplace Chief Dennis Buchanan. “Moreover, these stations have been designed with right this moment’s workforce in thoughts, which suggests the peace of mind of workforce lodging, comparable to separate sleeping quarters and restrooms.”
Fireboat Station 15 is a single-level, 7,750-square-foot constructing within the Port’s outer harbor with dwelling quarters, a storage for 2 firefighting equipment vehicles and a full wharf with a 16,311-square-foot boat bay enclosure that homes fireboat Vigilance. Building began in April 2019 and the undertaking was accomplished in September 2021.
Fireboat Station 20, positioned within the Port’s internal harbor, is a two-level, 9,783-square-foot construction geared up with dwelling quarters, a storage for 2 firefighting equipment vehicles and a 16,280-square-foot boat bay enclosure that homes fireboat Protector. Building began in March 2021 and the undertaking was accomplished in December 2023.
Fireboat Protector entered service in 2016, adopted a yr later by its companion, Vigilance, heralding main developments in harbor firefighting and emergency response capabilities on the Port of Lengthy Seashore. The fireboats are every geared up with 10 water cannons able to sending as much as 41,000 gallons per minute to a distance of as much as 600 toes, or the size of two soccer fields.
