Introduction of Air Fire Brigade Activities

The City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau Air Corps uses helicopter functions and mobility to conduct firefighting activities such as information collection, video transmission, rescue, fire extinguishing, public relations, and transport of emergency patients.

Information such as disaster status and damage status is very important for the participating fire brigade to be active. .
The aviation fire brigade supports ground activities by confirming and providing information on this information that cannot be confirmed from the ground from the sky.

• Confirmation of the spread of fire at the time of fire, danger of human life, rescuers, etc.
• Damage survey on major arterial roads such as buildings and national roads during the earthquake
• Damage survey of river flooding, landslides, etc. caused by typhoons, etc.
• Check the situation when dangerous goods are leaked from dangerous goods facilities, etc.
• Confirmation of 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 can visualize the disaster situation at the disaster site in real time and transmit it to the command headquarters of the site, etc., and is an extremely effective system as a means of collecting information for various types of disaster response.

The following rescue activities utilizing the characteristics of helicopters will be carried out at a wide range of rescue sites, such as flood accidents in rivers and the sea, 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, a ship fire, or a forest fire, fire fighting will be performed from the sky using a fixed aircraft 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, such as when land routes are cut off due to disasters such as earthquakes and heavy snowfall.

In the event of an accident in an area that requires long-term transport to the hospital, or when long-distance transfer is required for emergency surgery, etc., an emergency equipment mounting device will be installed on the aircraft to transport patients.
We also transport doctors, nurses, etc. to disaster sites.

In areas where disasters occur, we will provide a wide range of information from the sky using off-air loudspeakers equipped with information such as evacuation warning, evacuation orders and evacuation guidance attached to the aircraft.
In addition to disasters, we also conduct fire prevention publicity, etc. as necessary.

The activities of the City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau Air Corps are also used in administrative surveys such as aerial photography necessary for administrative purposes. In addition, we carry out activities inside and outside the prefecture based on various support agreements as well as activities in Yokohama city.