FDNY Marine Unit Fire Boat Put On Water Cannon Show In East River Yesterday Next To Roosevelt Island & Upper East Side To Show Thanks And Appreciation For Health Care And Other Essential Workers

Image From Barbara Spiegel

FDNY Marine Unit Fire Boat put on a show of water cannons spraying in the East River yesterday across from the Weill Cornell NY Presbyterian Upper East Side Hospital and Roosevelt Island's Coler and Roosevelt Medical Center showing appreciation and thanks to the health care and other essential workers

Awesome @FDNY fireboat putting on a show on East River near Roosevelt Island @Rooseveltisland pic.twitter.com/UKQJK64IHb

— Jaan Paljasma (@jpaljasma) May 14, 2020

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NYPD & NYFD East River Water Cannon Salute For Detective and Air National Guard Sergeant Joseph Lemm Killed In Afghanistan Seen From Roosevelt Island Tram This Morning

The New York Times reports today:

They lined up by the hundreds outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the shield of the New York Police Department mixing with the insignia of the United States Air Force on the shoulders of men and women who came to mourn a Nebraskan who took New York as his home.

Detective Joseph Lemm gained a reputation as something of a comic book superhero in the New York department, his bravery and warm manner winning him many admirers. But it was in his role as a sergeant in the Air National Guard that he was killed last week, along with five other Americans, in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan....

Click here for the full NY Times article.

This morning an East River water cannon salute to NYPD Detective and Air National Guard Sergeant Joseph Lemm could be seen

from the Roosevelt Island Tram.

NYPD and NYFD boats salute procession from East River. #JosephLemm

— Rich Liebson (@RichLiebson) December 30, 2015

The New York Daily News has more.

FDNY Boat Water Cannons Spraying From East River For Hospitalized Injured Firefighter As Seen From Roosevelt Island Tram This Afternoon

Earlier this afternoon, Walking Off The Big Apple blogger Teri Tynes took this picture from the Roosevelt Island Tram

 Image From Terri Tynes via Instagram

and tweets:

FDNY boat, spraying in East River. View from Roosevelt Island Tram 

According to this tweet from Justin Enzmann, the reason for the spraying FDNY boat was:

they were putting on a show for a badly injured firefighter who could see from his hospital room window

Here's more Roosevelt Island pictures from Ms. Tynes excellent Walking Off The Big Apple blog.

FDNY Boat Water Cannons Spraying On East River By Roosevelt Island Last Sunday - Quite A Sight

Image From W. Cruz

Roosevelt Island resident W. Cruz shares these photos and reports:

Early Sunday afternoon an FDNY ship passed by the island with a nice water display.  I took a few pictures

Image From W. Cruz

Last summer members of the FDNY Fireboat Bravest rescued a man in the East River:

Just days after it was put into service, firefighters aboard the new fireboat Bravest rescued a man in the East River on July 10.
"Everybody did their jobs and did a great job," said Capt. Louis Guzzo. "It was a good feeling."

Members of Marine 6 - including Capt. Guzzo and Firefighters Pete Demetropolis, Barney Duffy, Bill Hannan, Jim Mare and Gene Nickola - were called to the scene of a person in the East River, near 23^rd Street, at around 7:30 p.m.

They quickly made their way to the area. Capt. Guzzo added, "We were able to make a much quicker response because of the speed of the new boat."

As they made their way up the river, Firefighter Duffy donned the mustang suit - a wetsuit that also is buoyant.

Firefighters on land were on scene when the boat arrived and helped direct the members aboard the fireboat to the victim, who was slipping below the surface of the water....

Click here for interesting video from CNN on FDNY's new, state of the art fireboat.