Submitted for the Thursday 03/25/10 Totally Informal Transglobal Challenge
Topic: "Order or Chaos".
Other orderly (or) chaotic entries this week can be found - Here-.
Preparing for Chaos
The primary responsibility of an Airport Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) team
at any airport is to battle the extremely hot and difficult fires associated
with aviation fuels. To make sure they maintain a high state of readiness all
ARFF teams have to train how to use their equipment and function with heavy fire
suits and portable breathing gear. Here crews practise at an off-site burn pit.
Every exercise, conducted tri-annually, generates many panic calls from the public.