National Historic Landmark saves National Historic Place from fire
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Historic Fireboat Dispatched to Assist at N.Y. Waterfront Blaze
Lou Michel
The Buffalo News, N.Y.
Created: May 29, 2013
May 28--Land-based Buffalo firefighters were unable to battle a blaze at the top of a grain elevator on the city's waterfront Monday night, so the department's rarely used Edward M. Cotter fireboat was called into service.
"We couldn't get to the fire by land. There was no way to access it, so we called up the fireboat to get water on it," Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell W. Whitfield Jr.
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The facility had the capacity to store 4 1/2 million bushels of grain. A decade ago, the elevator was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Coincidentally, in 1996, the Edward M. Cotter was designated a National Historic Landmark.
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http://www.firehouse.com/news/10950519/historic-fireboat-dispatched-to-assist-at-ny-waterfront-blaze
I find it ironic that a fireboat is a landmark.
