Sivad Johnson (fireboat)

Sivad Johnson firing her water cannons during a ceremony to remember her namesake.

The Sivad Johnson is a fireboat operated in Detroit, Michigan. She is named after recently deceased firefighter Sivad Johnson, in 2021. Johnson was at a waterpark, with his children, when he heard three other children had fallen in the water, and might be drowning. Johnson drowned after he jumped in to try to save the missing children.

The Sivad Johnson is a modest sized vessel, but built to the modern standards for fireboats that had matching FEMA port security grants. So she has a cab that is airtight, to protect firefighters not just from toxic smoke, but from nuclear fallout, nerve gas, germ warfare, or from spilled toxic chemical waste. She is equipped with modern censors, like infrared sensors, so crew can see at night, in dense smoke, or fog. Infrared sensors have proven very useful for fireboats in other jurisdictions to find lost boaters, or other people who have fallen in water.