Levels of Response
The Airport RFFS will respond to all Aircraft Emergencies within the airport's boundaries and will also respond to 'off airport' incidents that fall within a 6 degree cone from the end of each runway. If though a special request has been made by the local authority, then dependent on circumstances, major foam tender/s may be dispatched.
All incidents that occur outside of the airport boundary are the responsibility of the local authority fire and rescue service serving that location.
Whilst local authority FRS firefighters are trained to deal with aircraft accidents they do not receive the same level of training as Airport Firefighters whose expertise are more specialist.
Airport Crews do not respond to non aircraft incidents off site, this would leave the airport without fire cover. By law if an airport has no fire cover it has to close its runways to passenger paying aircraft unless in an emergency, when it is at the discretion of the Captain of the Aircraft. This clearly would cause major disruption for air travel and scheduled flights.
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