Airview Fire Recon manages and operates FIREBIRDS, specialized reconnaissance aircraft utilized for the early detection, mitigation and suppression of wildfires.
While tasked to any particular fire ground or emergency incident, a range of stakeholders benefit from the visual intelligence that our FIREBIRD platform provides.
State commanders in HQ locations can quickly assess the severity of new ignitions or running fire incidents helping inform overall management decisions.
Local incident controllers can be provided with an instant overview of any current fire. Accurate geolocational information coupled with their own local knowledge of the area, helps to create effective and time sensitive fire management strategies on the ground.
Local ground crews can also benefit greatly from FIREBIRD intel. Instantly relayed information to ground crews helps inform firefighting efforts, back burn operations and fast, safe paths of egress.
To aid in modern fire fighting strategies that revolve around detection and containment of new ignitions before they reach a critical size, deployment of the FIREBIRD system is very effective at providing rapid detection and assessment of new fires.
Airview Fire Recon has been deployed countless times in Australia, using this strategy to get a fast understanding of a new ignition. Based on the intel provided, agencies then deploy the appropriate resources to tackle and extinguish these new fires long before they pose a threat to the local population or infrastructure
FIREBIRDS intel also adds to the effectiveness of aerial firebombing efforts, monitoring retardant drops, hotspot discovery, fire speed and break outs, distance to dwellings, available escape routes, predictive fire modelling, footage for local media and public safety, post-incident analysis and archival footage for review and training purposes.
TAKEOFF WITHIN 6 MINUTES
Our FIREBIRDS only require six minutes of notification to get airborne, immediately ready to be tasked on any fire or reconnaissance sortie throughout the state.
