Curtis Randolph (fireboat)

Detroit fireboat Curtis Randolph.

The Curtis Randolph is a fireboat operated by the Detroit Fire Department.[1] The 74.58 feet (22.73 m) vessel was launched in 1979, and is named after a young firefighter who died in the line of duty in 1977. Mayor Coleman A. Young commissioned the vessel.[2]

According to the Detroit Public Safety Foundation it is the "only Class A fireboat on the waterways between Chicago and Cleveland."[3] [4]

She can pump 11,000 gallons per minute.[4] She replaced the John Kendall, an older vessel that required a crew of ten, including five men whose sole responsibility was to stoke her steam engines.

Detroit's economic decline has eroded the Fire Department's equipment maintenance budget. The Curtis Randolph was unavailable for much of 2006 due to delays in crucial repairs.[5] On February 19, 2015, Fox News's Detroit station reported that although in previous years the Coast Guard had moved the vessel from its mooring in the Detroit River in October to prevent ice damage, she still hadn't been removed.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ "E-16 "Curtis Randolph"". Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  2. ↑ "Port of Detroit World Handbook". Fourth Seacoast Publishing Company. 1980. Retrieved 2015-02-28. On July 2, 1979 the City of Detroit, under the leadership of Mayor Coleman A. Young, commissioned the most modern fireboat on the Great Lakes.
  3. ↑ "Fire Boat". Detroit Public Safety Foundation. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  4. 1 2 Bob Dombrowski (2014). "38 Years a Detroit Firefighter's Story". Page Publishing. ISBN 9781628384178. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
  5. ↑ "Detroit's fireboat likely to miss fireworks show". Detroit Free Press. 2006-06-28. Retrieved 2015-02-28. The Curtis Randolph has been out of service for months because of city budget problems and appears likely to remain that way for Wednesday night's show.
  6. ↑ "Detroit's only fire boat left remains left out on icy waters". MyFoxNews9. 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-28. Many insiders fault the department's leadership for not protecting this fire boat against the giant chunks of ice and frigid conditions, and not just for the citizens, but for Curtis Randolph himself. He is the firefighter the boat was named after. He lost his life in the line of duty in 1977.
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