<p class="title">Aerodrome Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) unit of Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) organised the first of three capacity building programme sessions for stakeholder agencies on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">ARFF is organizing these sessions in the run-up to the full-scale aerodrome emergency exercise planned together with District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on May 4.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 21 personnel from Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services (KSF&ES) led by a district fire officer and seven personnel from State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) attended the first session.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Under this initiative, KSF&ES and SDRF personnel will be familiarised with the topography and layout of the airport, to help them meet any exigency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ARFF unit will take the remaining personnel at KSF&ES and SDRF through the familiarisation process in the other sessions planned soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district fire and emergency services and fire departments in other industrial units and SDRF act as first responders in case of any emergency at the airport.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thus, familiarisation is an important facet for them to function as a cohesive unit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ARFF unit at MIA will also conduct a similar capacity building programme for fire and emergency response units of major industries in the vicinity.</p>
<p class="title">Aerodrome Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) unit of Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) organised the first of three capacity building programme sessions for stakeholder agencies on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">ARFF is organizing these sessions in the run-up to the full-scale aerodrome emergency exercise planned together with District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on May 4.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 21 personnel from Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services (KSF&ES) led by a district fire officer and seven personnel from State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) attended the first session.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Under this initiative, KSF&ES and SDRF personnel will be familiarised with the topography and layout of the airport, to help them meet any exigency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ARFF unit will take the remaining personnel at KSF&ES and SDRF through the familiarisation process in the other sessions planned soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district fire and emergency services and fire departments in other industrial units and SDRF act as first responders in case of any emergency at the airport.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thus, familiarisation is an important facet for them to function as a cohesive unit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ARFF unit at MIA will also conduct a similar capacity building programme for fire and emergency response units of major industries in the vicinity.</p>
