Night fire suppression operations trial - Emergency Management Victoria

摘要

Night firebombing has the potential to significantly improve Australia's aerial fire fighting capability in support of hard working ground crews, to better protect life, property and critical infrastructure during major bushfires and emergencies and to extend the daytime aerial operations into the evening to suppress and contain fires. Night firebombing utilising night vision imaging systems (NVIS) is not new in the world, it is well established in many agencies particularly in the United States, however it has previously never been undertaken or approved in Australia. In 2017-18 Victoria's Night Fire Suppression Operations (NFSO) Trial tested the ability to hover fill helicopters at night and tested the efficiency of NVIS technology to attack fires from the air at a time when aircraft were previously required to be on the ground by last light.