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AVIATION => Operational => Topic started by: lauraw on April 29, 2008, 11:41:51 AM

Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: lauraw on April 29, 2008, 11:41:51 AM: Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows how many Aviation Firefighters are operational in the UK? Just for research purposes... I cant seem to find this info anywhere and I know it can vary greatly from airport to airport.
Thanks!
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Yeebsy on April 29, 2008, 11:19:57 PM: I have no idea, but there are 110 of us at Heathrow.
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Fireguy1230 on May 01, 2008, 09:19:28 AM: Probably best contacting IFTC Teesside and asking them. They will be responsible for the training and certification of them and as such may have a rough ball park figure as to how many are on their 'books'.
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: FIRE on May 01, 2008, 09:22:28 AM: All the RAF and MOD firefighters train at FSCTE Manston. There are about 650 RAF firefighters.
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: stevfire2 on May 01, 2008, 10:20:45 PM: dont forget, only low category supervisors will show up on sercos files. there will be many more "low cats" trained locally. we have 3 teeside trained supervisors, and 7 locally trained.
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: ruffles1 on May 02, 2008, 08:47:37 AM: IFTC put approx 2000 avaition students through the college last year
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: lauraw on May 07, 2008, 12:35:31 PM: Thats all great thanks.
I will contact IFTC Teesside to see if they have an idea of UK numbers on the whole but it is useful to hear how many are inindividual airports too as this info seems hard to come by in the web!
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Benfire on May 07, 2008, 01:33:58 PM: BAA Southampton has 33 operational personnel, plus the AFM
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Yeebsy on May 13, 2008, 07:31:46 AM: Benfire, if you're Southampton how come you got the Hampshire badge? you in the bunnies?
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Benfire on May 14, 2008, 04:52:56 PM: yeebsy, yeah, been retarded, I mean retained, for a year now. AFS soton not the busiest station in the world, so retained lets me see more hot smokey stuff. Out of interest, what the approx number of calls LHR get a year these days? Last I heard it was around 4500 a year?
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Yeebsy on May 14, 2008, 05:01:49 PM: I don't know exact figures, we have dropped a bit and if memory serves me right it's down to 3500 a year but bear in mind the majority of them are crappy AFA etc. But then again fire 10 has been to T5 a lot so the number may go up again this year.
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Benfire on May 14, 2008, 05:13:39 PM: 3500?!?!? It would take about 9 years to get that down here! My transfer letter is in, so I'll hopefuuly be up there before xmas
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Yeebsy on May 15, 2008, 12:31:08 AM: Half the strength here is made up of ex Southamptonintes. Do you know many of the guys here?
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Benfire on May 15, 2008, 11:56:24 AM: not really, know a few names, and met a couple, but no-one's transferred from sou to lhr since ive been here. Rich padgington was on my basic course, he still loafing around up there??
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: Yeebsy on May 15, 2008, 02:16:29 PM: Ye, Loafing being the operative word.
Title: Number of Aviation Firefighters in the UK
Post by: White_elephant on May 19, 2008, 04:38:14 PM: Sat next to him right now as I type this, he is loafing......... correction..... MINCING!!!