Airport Fire Service

Twitter account of Heathrow Airport Fire & Rescue Service

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

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[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

It was our pleasure @ThatSillyGinge Josh, great to get a pilot’s perspective too

[Josh @ThatSillyGinge]

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.

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

It was our pleasure @jumpjim

[James Shepard @jumpjim]

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…

#avgeek #avgeeks

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

New hose layer and new command vehicles currently being built, no new major foam tenders for approximately 3 to 4 years

[David Turvey @DavidDt20]

@HeathrowFire any news on new vehicles please thanks

[Clifford Agius @CliffordAgius]

Hiya @BT77W 👋

Myself @jumpjim and @ThatSillyGinge are down with @HeathrowFire today playing with the toys.

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

@BTTFRS1 There are lots of European airspace regulations at the moment and very recently a lot of bad weather ( when we had had some sunshine)

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Never forget

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

@SLGEngravers @GatwickFRS If we ever need this, we know where to come!

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

To aid our driver and monitor ops training we’ve hired @RosenbauerUK Panther simulator, very realistic!!

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Airport safety week at Heathrow, the team played their part showing off some of our capabilities

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Wish all fire teams across the world a very happy International Firefighters Day from all at @HeathrowFire

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

How did you get to see our new command vehicle?!!😉 @BT77W

[Mib @BT77W]

The good thing about working with @HeathrowFire is that I get to see their new equipment before most others 😏

#avgeek #avgeeks #aviation #Heathrow

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Friday feeling……….

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

@OwenReuby Hi, we don’t have any vacancies at present so therefore no immediate plans. We’ll post on here when we are next recruiting.

[SimTrainer UK @SimTrainerUK]

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!

https://t.co/QmVQbd5vNB

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Not yet, we will post on here when we are recruiting again- currently fully crewed

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Happy to present another 20 year LSGC medal to one of our Red Watch firefighters, Mick Brophy

[Clifford Agius @CliffordAgius]

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.

[James Shepard @jumpjim]

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
https://t.co/r8lXsub1Hx
#Aviation #Avgeek #Avgeeks

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

Mand the Fire station is looking good 😉

[Scott Bateman MBE @scottiebateman]

@BT77W @HeathrowAirport Can see me parking 533. 😂

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

@steonthesea Word for word👍

[Airport Fire Service @HeathrowFire]

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.

[James Shepard @jumpjim]

@doobry @Busstop36 @denkmit @HeathrowFire … Any chance you could elaborate on what the aims of the fire suppression are?