Something from north of the border … Green Bay, WI

This from Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS:

It was an exciting day for the Green Bay Metro Fire Department. The department received a new state-of-the-art fire boat. The fire department held a demonstration of the boat by placing a man into the Fox River as well as using a fire pump capable of discharging 2,000 gallons of water per minute. The boat will be used during rescue and firefighting operations. Fire chief David Litton says it will help the team when it comes to accidents on the water. I will tell you this potential always exists. Whether it’s a boat being stranded out in the bay, whether it’s somebody who capsizes their boat – an incident we had this summer – whether there’s a fire onboard or somebody overboard there’s much potential. The price tag of the boat was $315,000. $225,000.00 was donated by Green Bay Area Petroleum Companies and $90,000.00 will come from Green Bay taxpayers.

Photo Credit: Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS

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new fire boat for the Green Bay Metro Fire Department

Wayne Gauger – WGWI-PUBLICATIONS

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8 Comments

#1 by tom sullivan on September 23, 2015 - 11:36 AM

marvin,,,you are correct on lake Michigan. one cannot learn fast enough. but apparently a lot of people don’t learn at all, that’s why CFD air / sea rescue is in business !
#2 by Scott on September 21, 2015 - 12:05 AM

The Fontana Fire & Rescue at the west end of Lake Geneva was the first in the area to get a Lake Assault brand boat such as this one. Then CFD came to Fontana and looked at their boat where they modified the specs and improved on it. In April of this year the Linn Townshp FD (Walworth County) also purchased and place in service an even larger fire boat made by Lake Assault.

As far as the planning of the boat, its a trim issue with the props as the Honda motors you have to hold the trim completely till they stop to plane the boat out. The trim function of the Honda’s seem to stop at one point, but keep holding it and they go all the way to finish it.
#3 by marvin schwartz on September 17, 2015 - 10:37 PM

Brian, the fire people manning the chicago boats are experienced in boat handling.
There is a possibility that this crew on the new boat has not had the experience. They will get it only by training with the boat.
My comment was not made to point out anything but the boat operating in open water with the nose too high and the back too low.(BOW & STERN)
By the way,I have over 60 years experience in boat handling and I had a 25 ftr on Lake Michigan for 30 years. One learns very fast on Lake Michigan.
#4 by Wayne Gauger - WGWI-PUBLICATIONS on September 17, 2015 - 4:59 PM

More Pictures Can Be Seen Here: https://wgwipublications.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/gbmfdnfb916
#5 by Brian on September 17, 2015 - 3:13 PM

Marvin, CFD 6-8-8 has had no issues over the last several years on Lake Michigan
#6 by marvin schwartz on September 17, 2015 - 1:46 PM

probably ice skates
#7 by marvin schwartz on September 17, 2015 - 1:46 PM

nice boat,but it should be operated in a different manner. The boat should be trimmed out so it will run on plane.
In these pictures,the bow is way to high and a following sea could swamp it as the stern is to low in the water.
#8 by Brian on September 17, 2015 - 11:50 AM

Looks like a twin to CFD 6-8-8. What does Green Bay use in the winter?