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As an important port city, Chicago has operated dedicated fireboats since 1877.〔〔 In 1986, the ''Chicago Tribune'' offered a history of Chicago's larger fireboats, when the Chicago Fire Department moved the ''Victor L. Schlaeger'' from active to standby status.〔 According to that account, by 1908 the City was operating nine fireboats. However that was when many of the building that lined the waterfront were still made of wood, and by 1986 most of the factories and warehouses by the waterfront were built of concrete. Josiah Seymour Currey, in a history of Chicago published in 1912, listed five fireboats operating in the early 1900s.〔 By 1986 the city had introduced smaller, less powerful fireboats, that required smaller crews, and did not require specially trained and certified mariners to operate them.〔 When she was commissioned in 2010, the ''Christopher Wheatley'' was Chicago's first full-size fireboat in sixty years.〔 ==See also== * Fireboats of Baltimore * Fireboats of Boston * Fireboats of Connecticut * Fireboats of Detroit * Fireboats of Houston * Fireboats of Jacksonville, Florida * Fireboats of Long Beach, California * Fireboats of New Orleans * Fireboats of New York City * Fireboats of Philadelphia * Fireboats of San Diego * Fireboats of San Francisco * Fireboats of Toronto * Fireboats of Vancouver 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fireboats of Chicago」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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