Buffalo Fireboat E.M. Cotter
155 Ohio St. (End of Ohio St.)
Not handicap accessible; Restrooms Available
Photography and filming permitted
Guided Tours Every 30 Minutes
Last Tour: 3:30pm 

Visitor Experience: Tour the “worlds oldest working Fireboat” and learn some of it’s amazing history. Serving Buffalo since 1900, this fireboat/icebreaker has sunk twice, was destroyed in a fire and explosion, was rebuilt, and continues its mission today.

Building Description: Built and placed in service 3 years before the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane, and the year before the Pan-Am Expo in Buffalo, this steel hulled vessel can break over two feet of ice to prevent ice dams and flooding along the Buffalo River, Buffalo Creek, and Caz Creek.

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