Aerial appliances

Aerial Appliances. 

We have frontline aerial appliances reaching from upwards of 32 meters tall. 

What are aerial appliances used for?

Aerial appliances can be used for a range of tasks including delivering water from height onto a fire, as an observation platform, providing lighting and in certain cases rescuing people from height.

Aerial appliances aren't usually used for firefighting in high rise buildings where people live because firefighters use the fire safety measures and equipment inside the building. If aerial appliances are sent to an incident they are not used until we know that any people still inside the building are out of the way of the jets of water. The hoses can pump 2,400 litres of water a minute - that's seven baths full of water every 60 seconds.

Our turntable ladders

Turntable ladders have large telescopic ladders. At the Brigade we have 32m ladders that can, in good conditions, reach up to approximately the tenth floor of a typical high-rise building, and 64m ladders, which reach roughly twenty floors up. Turntable ladders have a cage at the top where firefighters can direct a hose from or reach people that need to be rescued.