"Fire Fighter" is a heroic defender of the American homeland. The "most storied fireboat in U.S. history" served the nation in some of its darkest hours, from the ...

A restored fireboat has made its way down the Hudson and is now sitting in the water at Pier 25 in Tribeca. For 50 years, the John D. McKean Fireboat fought fires including the Staten Island Ferry ...

Preservation efforts are underway to renovate an 85-year old vessel known as “America’s Fireboat”. Designed by noted naval architect William Francis Gibbs and built in 1938 at United Shipyards on ...

A Washington woman gave birth on a fireboat while attempting to get to a hospital. Katherine Sims was on Anderson Island, a small island in Puget Sound in Pierce County, when she suddenly went into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a second year in a row, a record number of shipwrecks were discovered in Wisconsin's Lake Michigan waters last year. According ...

-- Nov. 23--PORTLAND -- The city's $3.2 million fireboat returned to service Tuesday night, about three weeks after it was taken to a Rockland boatyard to repair damage inflicted when it hit an ...

San Francisco’s Jensen-designed super pumping fireboat is like none that came before her. As a result, the City by the Bay is prepared like never before, for its next crisis. Christened on October 17, ...

Founded by Miles and Alex Pincus, Crew is all about giving historic boats a second life on land. Its fleet includes Frying Pan, a former lightship turned Chelsea party destination, and Grand Banks, a ...

Not every fireboat has a story. But Tacoma’s does. Honorarily moored in concrete along Ruston Way, Tacoma residents young and old have grown up with Fireboat No. 1. Some remember it patrolling the ...

The Public Art Fund, a New York organization that offers free contemporary art shows, has commissioned local artist Tauba Auerbach to transform the historic fireboat John J. Harvey into a contemporary ...

An FDNY chief who oversaw the department’s firefighting boats — including one involved in a fatal East River crash last year — has been forced to turn in his retirement papers, court papers reveal.