Rescue and Fire Fighting Services
We have a full-time team of fire fighters at Wycombe Air Park. When not training or maintaining their Rescue and Fire equipment the fire fighters are involved in running the ground services, refuelling, moving the 150 aircraft based here and general airfield maintenance. Their safety role is taken very seriously and the CAA use WAP RFFS as a model to other general aviation airfield operators nationwide.
The Rescue and Fire
Fighting category at Wycombe Air Park is nominally Category 1, but
can be increased to Category 2 and even Category 3 if required.
Each of the two vehicles are independently capable of carrying the
required amounts of fire fighting media and personnel. A spare
vehicle is available for maintenance periods or breakdowns. During
weekdays, two appliances are manned by four fire fighters plus one
Low Category Aerodrome Junior Officer in charge. On weekends and
Public Holidays, the manning is three fire fighters, one of which
is generally a Junior Officer. The total complement of the RFFS
consists of three Junior Officers and five fire fighters. The fire
fighters are trained on site, whilst the officers receive their
training at the Serco
International Fire Training Centre at Teesside Airport. All
training is compliant with both CAP 168 and 699 and is in
accordance with CAP 605.
First aiders are trained by external paramedics with at least
five fire fighters holding First Aid at Work Certificates in
accordance with Health and Safety at Work regulations.
Fire training is carried out at Wycombe Air Park for other organisations including British Antarctic Survey and the Civil Aviation Authority's own inspection officers.
