Royal Australian Air Power firefighters have been thanked for serving to to extinguish a large hay hearth within the Northern Territory city of Katherine final month.
RAAF Base Tindal’s No. 17 Squadron Hearth Part dispatched two Airfield Panther hearth vans and two rural hearth vans to the scene inside quarter-hour of receiving the misery name on 7 November, with crews assigned to guard two fuel bullets and assault flames in mill and feed storage sheds.
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“Once we arrived, all of the hay outdoors the construction was ablaze and spreading inside the place tools was saved,” No. 17 Squadron hearth controller Corporal Laurence Jamieson mentioned.
“The LPG fuel bullets have been being heated by the hearth and wanted instant cooling to forestall a doable explosion.
“The Panther hearth vans utilised their roof-mounted water turrets to guard the fuel bullets, break up the hay hearth and halt the hearth unfold, whereas the agricultural vans relayed water to maintain suppression efforts going.
“Saving an area property and belongings was deeply rewarding and gave us an actual sense of accomplishment. This incident strengthened the robust partnership between Defence, native emergency providers and the Katherine group.”
In accordance with NT Hearth and Rescue senior station officer Daniel Kenna, RAAF personnel “built-in seamlessly” and have been capable of “save constructions and related equipment vital to inventory feed manufacturing”.
“With out RAAF assist, I’m unsure whether or not we may have held the hearth the place we did – notably the safety offered by one of many Panthers to the 2 giant fuel bullets underneath direct risk from hearth impingement,” he mentioned.
