BRM is staffed and has Cat 6 vehicles.
For International flights the units are manned to achieve 3 min anywhere on areodrome ICAO req.
All staff are multi skilled during normal times first vehicle may take 5 mins. Unfortunately unannounced prangs are difficult even if 2 mins to site is achieved. None in Australia to my knowledge have been rescued.
For an announced emergency its full monty including all other emergency vehicles normal 2min response time. This happens 2-3 times per year.
The biggest was a Dash 8 without a nose wheel, happened to be there at the time, flew up with Dash8 Chief Pilot on AN that morning !!!
He got the Dash down very well landed on up hill section our RIV was there under 60 secs guys did a great job. No pax it was only a test flight after the a/c hit an eagle at 5000ft and was out of action for some months. The crew were able to get out before the RIV!! ie under 60 secs.
AN crew had stayed in their a/c the whole time, one helped with comms and the other once landing was iminent road on one support vehicle in case things got jammed and he might know something our guys didn't .
That why it saddens me to see all the 1989 stuff on this site, what happened that night is everyone helping aviators with a problem.
Hey we even made it with out Dick directing the traffic!!!!
