Fire boats covering Fleet Week?

[mstrang1 213]

Are any of the local FD/PD boats helping NYC cover the river for Fleet Week? Was on the West Side yesterday and saw all the boats coming in to port. Awesome sight to see a few destroyers running up and down the Hudson under the GWB.

PS Does anyone know if you can get tours of any of the boats or do security issues prevent this?

[COMMANDCHIEF 4]

You can get tours. But the lines are pretty long. You would be best to start down there early. I don't know what time the first tours are, but I know they do give them. Each ship has a tour. They break you up in small groups. and various sailors will show you around. I don't know what foreign navy's will be up. But you can tour those as well.

As far as fire boats from up here going down, I'm not certain about. The Coast Guard and the Naval Malitia usually have some craft down there as well as the PD boats from the city.

[Guest DADAY]

I heard that they were naming a new fire boat during fleet week, I think i heard that its gonna be called the F.B. SPLAT