If the concern is a boat docked behind a residential building with no streetside access, why don’t the building codes require hydrants and hoses alongside docks so you wouldn’t need a boat to gain access? Firefighters could simply walk around the rear of the building and access the equipment. That seems to make more sense than to have a full time water response for fire “every five years”. If a boat catches fire away from shore, it would most likely burnout before they could reach it anyway.
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If the concern is a boat docked behind a residential building with no streetside access, why don’t the building codes require hydrants and hoses alongside docks so you wouldn’t need a boat to gain access? Firefighters could simply walk around the rear of the building and access the equipment. That seems to make more sense than to have a full time water response for fire “every five years”. If a boat catches fire away from shore, it would most likely burnout before they could reach it anyway.