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	Fort Wayne Allen County Airport Authority The Public Safety Department at FWACAA is unique in Indiana. This department is cross-trained with a staff of Police/Firefighters. These officers rotate duties from Fire Suppression at the station below to security, EMS and safety at the main terminal. An EMS/Quick-response vehicle is parked at the main terminal while the Crash Rigs respond from their station off the runways. During all aircraft incidents, the department is assisted by the Indiana National Guard's Fire Suppression ARFF apparatus as well.
Public Safety Department Fire Station - Fort Wayne Airport
Airport 24 - 2002 Oshkosh T-1500 with Snozzle - 1,500gal/200foam/500lb Dry Chemical Crash 24 is the newest rig in the ARFF fleet
Airport 24 - 2002 Oshkosh T-1500 with Snozzle - 1,500gal/200foam/500lb Dry Chemical 24 has a pump that delivers 1000gpm through it's Snozzle brand elevating waterway. The rig also has a 325gpm bumper turret that assists with fire suppression.
Airport 4 - 1975 Oshkosh P4 - 1500gal Airport 4 and it's twin Airport 12 respond from the runway station. These reliable and durable rigs formerly served at the Crane Naval Base in southern Indiana before being refurbished and delivered here. These rigs are set to retire in late 2006 when they are replaced with a new Oshkosh Striker 1500.
	Indiana Air National Guard Crash Fire Rescue The 122nd Fighter Wing is located at the Fort Wayne/Allen County International Airport. This active guard division recently spent time in Iraq protecting our troops with their F-16 squadron. Their home airfield is protected by it's own Fire Department. Full-time Guard members specially trained in fire suppression help supplement their personnel. In addition, the ARFF co-responds with the Airport Fire Department for aircraft-related incidents.

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Here at Firefighter-EMT.com we’ve highlighted some of our finds worldwide. Nearly all airport fire apparatus carry some form of foam - usually, Class B foam - which suppress the volatility of flammable liquids and vapors. We’ve also noticed that the Austrian company Rosenbauer is the leading manufacturer and provider of choice at many international airports.

A Rosenbauer ‘Simba’ tender operating out of Frankfurt am Main Airport, for which it was specially designed. Courtesy of Peter von Marion.

A Scania P380 6×6 short cab vehicle operating out of Oskarshamns, Sweden. Photo courtesy of Scania group.

Another Rosenbauer unit at Delhi International Airport. Photo courtesy of vm2827.

A German Lentner “Avenger” airport crash tender built on a Dutch space-frame Terberg 6×6 chassis at the Bydgoszcz Szwederowo Airport, Poland. It can carry up to 12,000 liters of water as well as 1,500 liters of foam. Image courtesy of corarz.

30-ton Carmichael International Cobra 2 fire engines at Manchester Airport, UK. Image courtesy of DM Aviation Images.

Another Carmichael unit with a different paint job at the East Midlands Airport in the UK. Photo courtesy of John Hartley.

Fire training at Schipol Airport, Amsterdam. Image courtesy of virtualpilot88.

Oshkosh Striker 1500 ARFF Truck 815 of Portland Airport Fire Rescue in the United States. Oshkosh is a familiar manufacturer in the United States for heavy duty vehicles as airport emergency trucks. Courtesy of F18E777.

An airport fire service lifting unit from Italy, on tour in Hanover, Germany. Image courtesy of tragesessel4350.

A Rosenbauer ‘Tiger’ unit at Bengaluru International Airport, Bangalore, India. Image courtesy of photoyogi.

Notice the similarity between the unit in Bangalore with this one in service at Dubai International Airport, a Rosenbauer ‘Panther’ 8×8 unit. It weighs nearly 40 tons, and has a a capacity of 3,830 gallons (14,500 liters) of fire extinguishing agents and a maximum speed of 87 mph (140 km/h). It won gold at the International Design Excellence Award in 2008.
Photo courtesy of tragesessel4350.

What I believe to be a Unipower chassis - fabricated by UMW Wagon Engineering, at a Malaysian airport. Image courtesy of Nick.

Iveco Magirus’s Super Dragon X8. Iveco manufactures a lot of mainland Europe’s fire engines. Image courtesy of Jacopo Prisco.

A Rosenbauer unit with telesquirt at Macau International Airport. Courtesy ofMelinda.

A pair of E-One Titan HPR spotted at Groningen Airport Eelde in the Netherlands. It has a pump capacity of 7800 lpm and can carry 11750 litres of water. Photo courtesy of Netherlands Air Force 001.

Rosenbauer Trucks

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Rosenbauer Panther

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Client: Rosenbauer International (Austria)
Design: Spirit Design (Austria)

The Rosenbauer Panther is a high-performance fire engine for airports. With eight direct-drive wheels, an operating weight of 40 tons, a capacity of 3,830 gallons (14,500 liters) of fire extinguishing agents and a maximum speed of 87 mph (140 km/h), this new 8x8 model is the highest quality airport fire-fighting vehicle availableRosenbauer Panther 4X4 Aircraft Rescue & Firefighting (ARFF) fire truck
They are usually forgotten, as they tend to see a lot less action than non-airport bound firefighters, but boy, do they have cool equipment to play with! Airport fire departments have some very tight performance parameters, basically, because when a huge piece of aluminium, titanium, passengers and fuel crashes and ignites on or near a runway, every second counts. That’s the reason this 40-ton baby accelerates from 0 to 80 Km/h (50mph) in around 25 seconds. In proportion to weight, this is faster than a 1997 McLaren F1, which hits 100 Km/h (60mph) in 3.3 seconds! And this is what it looks like:

The Rosenbauer Panther 8×8 MA5 airport and rescue firefighting vehicle. Sporting a 1000 hp engine (yes, that is not a typo), it carries 12.5 tons of water, 1.5 tons of foam liquid, and up to 1 ton of NP powder. Full specs here. Up to three monitors (two mounted at the front, one top) give it a range from 25 meters up to 85 meters, all controlled from the cabin with joysticks and cameras. At 11 bars of pressure, the top monitor can empty the water tank in two minutes. The cabin controls look like something out of Star Wars:

Note the complex MFD control system for the hydraulics – so much for turning a wheel and having water come out a hose, right? While I did part-time work at Southend Airport, I was able to ride and operate a much smaller, much simpler, but equally fun Carmichael truck. Will post a pic when I find it and scan it (film rolls back then, the only thing digital in cameras was your finger).Seen @ Mumbai Port, high speed Rosenbauer Panther fire trucks waiting to be shipped to Delhi Airport.






Rosenbauer FL Panther 6x6 Truck 816 from The Port of Portland Airport Fire Rescue parked on C-11 at PDX

Airport 11 - 2004 Rosenbauer P19H with Snozzle - 1,500gal/200foam/500lb Dry Chemical Crash 11 is the newest rig in the ARFF fleet. It is one of only a few Rosenbauer crash trucks in service with the USAF.
Airport 11 - 2004 Rosenbauer P19H with Snozzle - 1,500gal/200foam/500lb Dry Chemical Crash 11 has a pump that delivers 1000gpm through it's Snozzle brand elevating waterway. The boom is also equipped with a video camera and thermal imaging camera. A bumper turret also assists with fire suppression.