Fire Safety & Salvage Service

The main task of Fire Safety & Salvage Service of Almaty International Airport JSC is duly rendering assistance to Airlines’ aircraft at emergencies.

The personnel of fire-salvage teams totals more than a hundred specialists, these are rescuers, firemen and fire-engine drivers.

There is the advanced rescue and fire-prevention technics in the service arsenal. These technics are of high dynamic qualities, equipped with high-tech fire-technical equipment capable to provide a maximum level of airfield fire protection according to ICAO requirements.

Special vehicles are capable to reach any point of the airfield for 3-4 minutes, bring in up to 60 tones of fire extinguishing means at a time and are equipped with remote control, fire-pumps and monitors from the driver’s cabin. Fighting vehicles of Fire Safety & Salvage Service are capable to provide carbon-dioxide, water-foamy and powder fire suppression.

Also, the service is equipped with special rescue technics, providing all kinds of salvage operations on emergency aircraft. These are creeper wheel tractors, communication and lighting vehicles with stand-alone generators, ladders.

The rescue service station is located almost in a control point of the airfield, where round-the-clock control of aircraft’s taking-off and landing, moving of birds, fire-safety condition on the objects of the airport from the watch-tower is carried out.

Following recovery equipment is to provide evacuation of immobilized aircraft from the airfield:

• - recovery dollies;
• - recovery lift bag systems;
• - lifting slings for aircraft recovery;
• - aircraft emergency towing sets;
• - ground reinforcement mats.