Aircrane Incident Response Systems "AIRS"

It's called the Aircrane Incident Response System (A.I.R.S.) and it has incredible capabilities in responding to a major disaster. It's the S-64 Aircrane helicopter and it's called the "Flying Swiss Army Knife" because of its unique combination of strength, versatility, and precision. The Aircrane has a grapple for picking up huge pieces of debris, whole trees, cars, bridge, and building sections when ground equipment would take too long or the scene is inaccessible. It can transport and place modular portable operations centers, medical and triage facilities, DMORT assets, and supplies into remote or heavily damaged areas. All loads are carried by the helicopter with our patented anti-rotation rigging system that keeps the load from spinning and allows for fast, precise placement. It can bring in water, communications equipment, and can even lay electric or communications cable from special spools carried under the helicopter. It also has a 60-person rescue basket that can carry people off of a rooftop or out of the water in a marine incident — not one or two at a time as the Coast Guard now does it, but 60 at a time. It can spread neutralizing agent over a large area impacted by a chem/bio incident and can place huge sandbags on levees, preventing breaches or overtopping.

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Lifting and placing essential assets into hard to reach places:

• Portable/modular command centers, medical, DMORT
• Medicine, Food, ice, water buffalos with potable water
• Generators, vehicles

Power and phone lines into hard to reach disaster areas

• Laying telephone cable and power lines from large spools

Assisting Urban Search and Rescue:

• Lifting big girders up and away
• Removing cars and heavy rubble

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