On November 25, the Direct 8A helicopter of the Forest Fire Bureau of the Emergency Management Department completed the mission of refitting and refitting the medical shelter in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, and installed the service aviation rescue team to perform the winter Olympic security mission.
The straight 8A helicopter is retrofitted with a medical shelter, which can simultaneously escort 2 severely ill and 9 lightly wounded patients with a special ambulance stretcher and the original crew seat. It has on-site first aid and medical escort functions, and can be used for medical escorts. Physical sign monitoring, medical oxygen supply, life support and emergency treatment of the wounded and sick. Under the condition of 6 operators, the installation, disassembly and task attribute conversion of the medical rescue unit can be completed within 30 minutes; the continuous operation time is not less than 2 hours without the use of the on-board power supply, and the overall weight of the system is less than 166 kg. The medical shelter has the characteristics of comprehensive functions, convenient disassembly, light system quality, and long battery life.
The Z-8A equipped with a medical shelter is the domestically-made helicopter with the largest take-off weight of the air rescue team currently installed in China. The modification of the medical shelter is another expansion and improvement on the basis of its original forest fire prevention and fire fighting and emergency comprehensive rescue capabilities. It has innovatively created a new emergency rescue model of "helicopter + medical team" after "helicopter + special service team". .
Since November 2020, Zhi 8A was ordered to garrison with the Daqing Air Rescue Detachment in Zhangjiakou to perform the security missions for the 2022 Winter Olympics. It has carried out air rescue missions in the core area of the Chongli Winter Olympics, forest firefighting, and Winter Olympics security. , And successfully completed the fire-fighting reinforcement missions in Handan and Shijiazhuang, sprinkled 82 tons of water, and extinguished more than 20 fire-fighting points, supporting the air shield of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics with excellent skills.
