METHOD OF FIRE-FIGHTING FROM FIRE HELICOPTER Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A62C3/00 

FIELD: rescue equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to fire-fighting facilities and can be used to extinguish the objects located away from water reservoirs. The method of fire-fighting from the fire helicopter is as follows. When receiving the information about a fire the fire helicopter is delivered to the site of the fire. The found burning object is oriented relative to the cardinal points, placed in non-hazardous areas around the burning object, the fire helicopter hovers sequentially over each point corresponding to this cardinal point, and the coil with halyard rope of fire-resistant material sprung wound on it is dropped to each firefighter-spotter, the other end of which is attached to the vessel with the fire-extinguishing agent, after dropping of all four coils the fire helicopter hovers over the burning object, the vessel with the fire-extinguishing agent is lowered from the fire helicopter so that it is placed in a selected region of the burning object, when inclination by the wind of the position of the vessel with the fire-extinguishing agent, the commands are given from the fire helicopter by the mobile communication to the firefighter-spotters to pull or loosen their halyard ropes in order to adjust the horizontal position of the vessel.

EFFECT: enhanced efficacy of fire-fighting in windy conditions is provided.

1 cl, 1 ex