ADAF Service opens fire-fighting competition 2022

During the two-day event, competitors performed their skills, using portable fire-fighting equipment and other specialized vehicles, rescuing people, and moving properties to prevent fire from spreading. They also conducted fire-fighting plans, and demonstrated extinguishing of aircraft fire.

Addressing the opening ceremony, Major General Pham Truong Son, Second-in-Command of the ADAF Service, Head of the Steering Board of the competition stressed that the festival aimed to review the training outcomes in fire-fighting and search and rescue operations to work out future training orientations. It will help raise professional expertise of fire-fighters and search and rescue troops of the service, as well as improve commanding competence and coordination among participating units.

Below are several photos of the festival.

Delegates at the opening ceremony of the festival

Major General Pham Truong Son addresses the opening ceremony.

A representative of participating teams takes an oath.

The organizing panel presents memorial flags to participating teams.

Participating teams from ADAF Service’s affiliates in the Central and Southern regions.

Troops perform marching skills.

Giving first aid to a person suffocated by smoke from a burning oil tanker

Employing fire-fighting measures and involved forces

Giving first aid and moving a troubled pilot to a safe place

The fire truck is putting out the aircraft fire.

At the competition for a team with combined tasks of extinguishing the fire using portable fire-fighting devices, rescuing victims and moving properties to avoid fire spread

Rushing to the finish line. The competition requires competitors’ good fitness, decisiveness, and accuracy.

Double-checking the equipment before duty implementation

Bringing along the hoses to the position of the target boxes

Spraying water through a 5cm hole on the target box until the light turns red

Referees follow closely the competition’s developments and record competitors’ results.

Translated by Mai Huong