The City of Long Beach, California started to operate a new fireboat, now known as the Protector, in May 2014.

Her ten water cannon can pump 41,000 gallons per minute, more than four times as much as her predecessors.

The two vessels were designed by Robert Allan Limited, a firm known for designing many widely admired tugboats, fireboats and support vessels.

[2] In addition to firefighting duties Fireboat 20 and her sister have air-tight crew compartments and a decontamination chamber, so they are equipped to respond to the releases of hazardous material, in particular they can respond to radiological, poison gas, or germ warfare attacks.

[9] Protector and Vigilance helped celebrate the 2019 Great Pacific Air Show.