00:00 Here at London Gatwick, these are our Rosenbauer Pamphers.
00:04 Now our Rosenbauer Pamphers, we have five of in the fleet,
00:07 and we also have a different variant with a H-Rep model, which is an extended boom on the top.
00:12 But our main running appliance here that attends all aspects of the airfield
00:17 and deals with every aspect of aviation is the Rosenbauer Pampher.
00:21 It holds 12,500 litres of water, and we can project that out of our main monitor on the roof
00:27 up to 80 metres at a discharge rate of 5,000 litres a minute.
00:32 So an enormous amount of pressure and a lot of water that we can get out within a short space of time.
00:41 So let me show you around the appliance very, very quickly,
00:49 and I'll show you some key features that's really important to know.
00:53 So as we come round to the main cab, the main console inside, this can house a crew of four,
00:59 but we tend to run these operationally with a maximum of three.
01:03 So we have the OIC on one side, the person in charge of the appliance, the driver,
01:08 and then we also have a firefighter on the other side, and at any operational incident,
01:12 they can get off the appliance and roll out hoses and be able to deal with any sort of incident.
01:19 And as we sort of move around, we see the size of the tyres, the size of the truck,
01:28 and this appliance in itself weighs just under 40 tonnes, which is a huge bit of kit to be moving around.
01:36 Now you might be thinking about the size of the engine and what sort of power that needs,
01:41 and this is running at just under 750 brake horsepower, so a huge amount of power.
01:47 So a 300 litre fuel tank is what it contains, and these are now operated all with HVO fuel.
01:57 So being 700 brake horsepower, with a 14 litre engine, it's going to chew through a lot of fuel,
02:03 and that being at about 2 to 5 litres per gallon.
02:06 So having something environmentally friendly is really important.
02:16 So here's our first locker that we come to. We've got our main hoses on the side there.
02:21 We've also got a high pressure hose reel in case we need to go internal firefighting,
02:25 and then we've also got dry powder units for if we have to deal with anything particularly with fuel,
02:31 or where we need to get a little bit closer to the seat of a fire.
02:35 So that's our first locker that we come to.
02:38 Now as we come down, we've got further equipment lockers, small fire extinguishers in these ones,
02:45 and then right at the back here, we've got our fuel locker itself.
02:54 So once a week our vehicles get refuelled. We get it fuelled by our airfield operations team,
03:06 who come out of a Bowser, and then we refill our vehicles on a weekly basis.
03:10 So there we have our Rosenbauer Panther, a fantastic bit of kit.
03:15 It's designed to get anywhere on the airfield at a moment's notice,
03:18 and it's equipped to be able to deal with any incident.
03:21 We've got five of these of this particular style, and then we've got one HRET vehicle,
03:27 and when I say HRET, that refers to a high boom, so we can move that boom into different levels of operation,
03:35 whether it be dealing with an undercarriage fire, so we can put it down at floor level,
03:38 or we can put it up really high if we were dealing with an APU style fire,
03:42 so the artillery power unit of an aircraft, or we can use our cameras on it to get up nice and high
03:47 and look down onto the top of an aircraft.
03:50 Rosenbauer Panther is now having HVO fuel as opposed to having diesel.
04:02 We've seen no performance difference, so what's really important to me, the crews, and the fire station
04:07 is that we can deploy anywhere across the airfield, have that performance, have that reliability,
04:12 and when we were going through the transition period and the testing between diesel and HVO,
04:17 we didn't notice any performance difference at all between the two.
04:21 So now we've confirmed that we did vigorous testing, we were able to then transition our whole fleet over to HVO.
04:35 These Rosenbauer Panthers here take 300 litres of fuel,
04:38 and they regularly run anything between 2 and 5 miles to the gallon,
04:43 so a very juicy vehicle, as you'd probably say, but weighing in at just under 40 tonnes,
04:51 and having a performance as they do, so we have to have, they'd have speed tests,
04:56 and we have to be able to meet certain times across the airfield, roughly about 2 minutes in optimum conditions.
05:03 They need to be able to hit 0-50 miles an hour in about 25 seconds,
05:08 and for a big vehicle like that, that's extremely quick.
05:11 Well, we're trying to promote, across the airport, saving life, rescuing,
05:21 we're environmentally friendly, we want to have a good environmental impact,
05:27 as you can see behind me, we've got lots of aircraft coming in and out,
05:30 and also we've got obviously these big vehicles that are burning a lot of fuel.
05:33 So what is important to me is being able to help people, help the environment,
05:38 help the area that we're working in, living in, and the conditions that we are.
05:43 It's my ultimate health as well at the end of the day,
05:45 so it's in my best interest to be able to not only promote the HVO fuel,
05:50 but to actually be an ambassador for it and support it, and be able to fly the flag,
05:55 and be able to celebrate the fact that we are a lot greener, a lot more greener than what we are.
06:00 We originally refer to it here as the 'chip fat oil',
06:13 and I have very limited knowledge in myself on how HVO works,
06:18 and because it's such a new product, a new concept,
06:21 it was quite hard for me to get my head around it.
06:24 But then when we started hearing that actually the two can be mixed,
06:27 and originally after our test vehicle, our test Panther was used,
06:32 we have now started to put HVO straight into our vehicles,
06:35 even when they've had a bit of diesel in there.
06:37 So now I see it as just another fuel that you would potentially,
06:41 maybe even one day be buying at a petrol station.
06:44 All but being more expensive, it's then obviously a lot greener,
06:48 and through the emissions as well.
06:50 Now our vehicles with a big exhaust coming out the back, and particularly on this one,
06:54 originally when we were operating diesel you had that big sort of black plume of smoke coming out,
06:58 whereas now, you don't really see anything at all.
07:01 So visually I'm actually seeing something, performance wise no difference at all,
07:07 and then I'm assured by our management team, by the MT section,
07:11 and through the testing that we've done, that it is a lot safer, greener, and environmentally friendly.
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