CHENNAI: Two state-of-the-art Airport Fire Fighting and the Rescue Vehicles (AFFRVs) were inducted into the fleet of the Chennai Airport Fire Station on Tuesday.
They were imported from Rosenbaur, Austria, and are the first lot of the five such vehicles ordered for the airport.
H.S. Bains, Member (Personnel) of Airports Authority of India, inducted the vehicles in the presence of representatives of Rosenbaur, airlines and other agencies.
Airports Authority officials said Chennai was the first airport in the country to acquire such sophisticated vehicles. The cost of the two vehicles pressed into service is Rs. 4.5 crore.
Each vehicle can carry 12,000 litres of water in addition to 1500 litres of foam for spreading a carpet of foam to control oil fires.
The vehicles are capable of accelerating from 0 to 80 km in 25 seconds.
They have an air-conditioned cabin.
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