Today I was extremely fortunate to get a look around @HeathrowFire with @jumpjim and @CliffordAgius! A very impressive setup of two fire stations that cover the entirety of Heathrow Airport as well as certain off-site locations in the immediate vicinity.
Thanks @HeathrowFire for an excellent day out, and some really useful insights in to aircraft firefighting. They have some MOST excellent toys to play with as well 😁. This is a @RosenbauerUK Panther HRET (High Reach Extendable Turret), able to reach those places other fire engines cannot.
As well as the fire fighting turret the boom is also fitted with a thermal imaging camera.
Your standard high street fire engine carries approx. 1800L of water.. This thing carries 11,200 litres and can dispense the whole lot in 2 minutes at approx 20 bar pressure 😳
You can see that @CliffordAgius and @ThatSillyGinge aren’t enjoying themselves at all…
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It’s 6 days to the Invisible Risk seminar, the largest event in the UK to date on the subject of the particulate risk to responders.
We have 210 delegates attending, representing 130 organisations.
We look forward to welcoming everyone booked in!
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Fun flying tonight and nice to see @HeathrowFire on local standby near the runway @HeathrowAirport ready to pounce if we get it wrong. Thanks to the awesome @LHRDirector controllers for thier support and hard work bit if a coaster ride down the approach in the worst of the winds.
Applications for the Flying Scholarships for the disabled scheme are open for three more weeks. If you are 18+, weigh 115kgs or below, UK resident and allowed to drive by the DVLA then go for it!
Applications close January 31st
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Aim would be to extinguish fire with foam however if there’s no life risk, fire service likely to go into “defensive mode” therefore not risking the safety of the firefighters. If there were saveable life then some risk would be taken. It’s called the firefighter safety maxim.