Anne Arundel County FireBoat19 sunk

[JayG1176]

Very sad news.. Fireboat 19 just sunk. All 4 firefighters on the boat have been rescued and alive.. DNR did the rescue. They lost motors and started to take on water...

 

[applied]

Oh no!

 

[Chris52]

Fire Boat 41. 19 was just using it

 

[maus92]

The weather was definitely a factor.

 

[Chris52]

That and the long list of prior mechanical problems with the vessel.

 

[maus92]

Losing power normally doesn’t sink you - unless the winds and wave heights are excessive. But yea, if they hadn’t lost propulsion, they probably would have been ok - or at least been able to return to dockage.

 

[Chris52]

It has actually sunk before, and then the turbo caught fire, and then this ….. I don’t think there’s any saving it this time.

 

[maus92]

It has actually sunk before, and then the turbo caught fire, and then this ….. I don’t think there’s any saving it this time.

Then the weather was likely the primary cause. Looking at the boat makes me think it is more of a shallow water resource than a vessel that could safely operate in relatively open water during a small craft advisory. Need to find the specs.

 

[maus92]

Sorry misread @Chris52 comment- I’m back to my power loss scenario, lol.

 

[maus92]

Some pix of the refloating:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-md-ar-fire-boat-recovered-20220404-f6hbbm4xmfhqlko5hcmehkyuyy-story.html