water tender

Blaze-fighting supply ship

A water tender is a firefighting vehicle designed to transport large quantities of water to areas without hydrants, common in rural firefighting.

The term also applies to a crew member on a ship or in a boiler room responsible for monitoring and maintaining water levels in boilers and related equipment.

locomotive

fireman

Emergency blaze responder

coal · steam · engine · gauge · injector · feedwater · cab · throttle · footplate · shoveling

maritime

stoker

Furnace fuel feeder

steamship · coal bunker · furnace · deckhand · engineer · seaman · vessel · galley · watch · below decks

Opposites
firefighting vehicle function

water tenderfire engine

Firefighter response vehicle

pumper truck · ladder truck · quint · rescue truck · engine company

element carried/deployed

water tenderair tanker

Aircraft dropping fire retardant

Family

water, tender, waters, watered, watering, watery, waterless, watershed, waterfall

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