Alki (fireboat)
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Seattle Fireboat Alki was a long-serving fireboat in Seattle, Washington.[1] Alki is 123 ft (37.49 m) long. She was built in 1927.
Seattle sits on both Puget Sound and a series of freshwater lakes, including Lake Union and Lake Washington.[1] In 2002, after a large fire, where thirty vessels were destroyed, firefighting authorities decided to permanently station a fireboat on the lakes, because it takes an hour for a fireboat to traverse the locks between the lakes and the Ocean. Alki was the vessel chosen.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jo Bailey, Carl Nyberg. Freshwater Fireboat--Alki is Ready, Seattle Press, 2002-07-18.