In the fire bucket fire is written in black or white color text, and the texts are in both local and English language. Due to the bright red color fire buckets are easily visible.
The fire buckets are always red color on the outer side and white color on the inner side. They are also great for fundraising as auction pieces, raffle prizes, and door prizes. A fire bucket is a bucket that is filled with sand or water and is used to extinguish the fire at starting or initial stage or small fire. Fire buckets make memorable gifts for retirements, service awards, special achievements, memorials, weddings, and anniversaries. We are approved to sell to the US Government.Ĭhris Black, the Managing Director, has been involved with helicopters since 1977, having worked in both Australia and Papua New Guinea as a Pilot, Co-Pilot and Load Manager, with virtually all helicopter types up to the giant MI-26T.Ĭhris developed the Water Hog range of fire fighting buckets after experiencing first hand the amount of work required to keep existing fire fighting buckets operational, the huge costs involved with the constant purchase of spare parts and the considerable down time experienced by helicopter operators, costing them many valuable revenue hours the goal being to design and manufacture buckets that are extremely reliable under all conditions. They are 14 inches tall, 9 inches in diameter at the rim, and yes, they really hold water.
We provide fire-fighting buckets to both private operators and government agencies.
Aerial Fire Control Pty Ltd (AFC) has been manufacturing helicopter fire fighting buckets since 2001.ĪFC is based in Adelaide, South Australia and is the second largest manufacturer of helicopter fire fighting buckets in the world.