A fireboat is a specialized watercraft and with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipment. Older designs derived from tugboats and modern fireboats more closely resembling seafaring ships can both be found in service today. Some departments would give their multi-purpose craft the title of "Fireboat" also.
They are frequently used for fighting fires on docks and shore side warehouses as they can directly attack fires in the supporting underpinnings of these structures. They also have an unlimited supply of water available, pumping directly from below the hull and can be used to assist shore based firefighters when other water is in low supply or is unavailable, for example, due to earthquake breakage of water mains, as happened in San Francisco due to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Modern fireboats are capable of pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute. An example is Fire Boat #2 of the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Warner Lawrence, with the capability to pump up to 38,000 US gallons per minute (2.4 m3/s; 32,000 imp gal/min) and up to 400 feet (122 m) in the air.
Deep in this darkened tomb
The demons begin their wake
And army of the dead
Summoned back to life
Your soul they will not take
Your fate has been sealed
With blood
It cannot be undone
Now that the deal is done
And all hope is gone
The powers sworn to you
Mean nothing in this hell
No chance to be reborn
Your fate has been sealed
With blood
It cannot be undone
It’s time to rise
The day has come
All that’s left to you is
Eternal damnation
Your fate has been sealed
With blood
It cannot be undone
It’s time to rise
The day has come
All that’s left to you is
Eternal damnation
It’s time to rise
The day has come
All that’s left to you is
Trapped below the earth
I begin to fear
The Cries of the damned
All around I hear
A lifetime of cruelness and hatred
Forever seals my fate
A bloodline of Greed, Regret
For now it is too late
You are Infernal
We are the damned
This is Eternal
Cursed from mortal lands
Bitterness distorts
Everything I see
Hear them calling a name
They're calling out for me
Salvation is past hope
My soul's been bought and sold
The highest bidder, every sinner
Each claim a hold
You are Infernal
We are the damned
This is Eternal