Vienna Airport Fire Service improves firefighter protection

摘要

Last year, the Austrian capital's international airport handled 24.4 million passengers and 224,600 air traffic movements. The airport fire service is on two sites so that firefighters take no longer than three minutes respond to any area of the airport where there is movement of aircraft on the ground.Vienna Airport Fire Service runs over 20 training sessions a year at the airport in line with a strict regulatory framework. The courses are delivered by 30 instructors, which represents 40 per cent of the service's complement of firefighters. Their training programme has been running for the past 15 years, guaranteeing that fire service personnel receive ongoing and consistent training. It is organised by the Fire and Rescue Training Academy, which is part of the Emergency Department of Flughafen Wien AG, the airport operator.