Introduction of activities of air fire brigade

City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau Air Fire Brigade is engaged in firefighting activities such as information gathering, video transmission, rescue, fire fighting, public relations, and transporting emergency patients.

Information such as disaster situation, damage situation, etc. is very important for participating fire brigades to work.
The aviation fire brigade supports ground activities by confirming and providing this information that cannot be confirmed from the ground from above and providing information.

• Confirmation of fire spread during fire, danger of human life, rescuer, etc.
• Investigation of damage to major arterial roads such as buildings and national roads during the earthquake
• Damage investigation of river flooding, landslides, etc. caused by typhoons, etc.
• Confirm the situation in the event of a spill of dangerous goods from dangerous goods facilities
• Confirm the situation when it is difficult to confirm the disaster situation from the ground, such as a large-scale disaster or a traffic accident on a highway.

The helicopter TV video transmission system is capable of visualizing the disaster situation at the disaster site in real time and transmitting it to the command headquarters of the site, etc., and is an extremely effective system as a means of collecting information for responding to various disasters.

The following rescue activities that take advantage of the characteristics of helicopters will be carried out at a wide range of rescue sites, such as water accidents in rivers and seas, accidents in mountainous areas, and rescue from rooftops in high-rise buildings.

When it is difficult to approach the fire point from the ground, such as a building fire, ship fire, forest fire, forest fire, etc., fire fighting from the sky using a fixed type fire extinguisher (fire attack) or a fire extinguishing bucket.

Materials can be transported from the sky to places where transportation from the ground has become difficult due to disasters such as earthquakes and heavy snowfalls.

When an accident occurs in an area that requires long-term transport to the hospital, or when long-distance transfer is required due to emergency surgery, etc., an emergency equipment mounting device is installed on board the plane to transport patients.
In addition, doctors and nurses are also transported to disaster sites.

In areas where the disaster occurred, we will provide information over a wide area from above using an off-air loudspeaker equipped with information such as evacuation warning, departure orders, evacuation guidance, etc.
In addition, we carry out fire prevention publicity as necessary not only during disasters but also for fire prevention.

The activities of the City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau Air Fire Brigade are also used in administrative surveys such as aerial photography of photographs required by the government. In addition, based on various support agreements, we carry out activities both inside and outside the prefecture based on various support agreements.