home | about us | history | gallery | usar | aireshelta | vehicles | sturt lhq | training | join sturt | contact us | links | members With an increasing number of serious incidents in South Australia, the Sturt SES Unit saw a need for an easily erected shelter at emergency sites or major crime scenes etc. We believed all emergency services as well as the Police could use some type of shelter in certain situations, but few would have enough demand on their own for this type of resource. The Sturt Team believed we could provide a service to the community at large as well as other emergency services by providing an Aireshelta Response Team. With the aid of a grant through the SA Government and the Emergency Services Levy Team, we were able to purchase an Aireshelta from the U.K. It arrived in June 2000, courtesy of Qantas Freight, and has been used at many incidents since then including searches, murder scenes, other types of crime scenes, bushfires, as a triage centre and recently at the West Lakes building collapse. Aireshelta provides victims, Police, medical retrieval teams, rescue and other emergency service teams, instant protection, privacy and a degree of physical comfort not otherwise available Aireshelta is an inflatable building that can be erected by a few trained volunteers in less than five minutes. It is made from reinforced woven nylon fabric coated in PVC. It is an aerodynamic-shaped structure, designed to withstand high winds. Consisting of an air-filled double skin making them warm in winter, cool in summer, the unit has two single end walls with built-in doors that can be rolled up out of the way. Aireshelta can be erected in any weather and on most surfaces ranging from grass to concrete or asphalt without causing damage to the site, and can be anchored to the ground by vehicle standing pads or ground spikes. It is inflated by an electric powered fan or by a petrol driven fan. )
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