On September 11 , 2001 , '' Fire Fighter '' along with the rest of the FDNY Marine Units , responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and took up a station at the foot of Albany Street in Battery Park City and began pumping at her maximum capacity to supply water to landside units fighting fires in the still-standing towers . Following the collapse of both buildings and resultant failure of the majority of the water mains serving lower Manhattan , '' Fire Fighter '' and the rest of the FDNY Marine Units became the sole source of water for firefighting efforts at Ground Zero , a duty which '' Fire Fighter '' maintained for a period of three weeks until sufficient repairs were completed on landside water mains to permit her release from what had become her longest emergency response call . Following a shipyard period in 2003 to rebuild her worn-out engines , the '' Fire Fighter '' resumed her post and continued to respond to marine emergencies , including a gasoline barge explosion in Port Mobile , Staten Island , in February 2003 and to the Crash of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009
Crash of US Airways Flight 1549
US Airways Flight 1549
Fire Fighter (fireboat)