The 422nd Fire Emergency Services detachment at RAF Fairford recently put a new fire truck into service. The vehicle, a Rosenbauer PANTHER, delivers state-of-the-art capabilities to RAF Fairford’s airfield firefighting mission.
The PANTHER comes with a new ultra-high pressure firefighting system that allows firefighters to operate it at full capacity for over ten minutes, which more than doubles the system’s effectiveness when compared to the previous vehicle. It also has a number of other upgrades that improve quality-of-life and work capacity for the crews. More