Mike Rose - Airport Fire Officer

Mike was born in Cirencester and attended Cirecester Deer park school. Whilst at school Mike had the opportunity to spend a week with delta jets as work experience, this then led to him joining as a volunteer doing all aspects of work ranging from re-fuelling to engineering. Mike continued to do this until he finished college at 18 gaining A levels in ICT, and Electronics. Mike was then offered a part time job with Cotswold Airport as a re-fueller until joining the Royal Air Force in November 2005 he was awarded the RAF Benevolent fund trophy for displaying the greatest effort and determination on flight during basic training. Mike then rejoined Cotswold Airport in 2006 as re-fuller/trainee firefighter and has just passed the course to be a LCAS. His hobbies include judo, motorcycling and is currently restoring a 1968 BSA Bantam.

 

 Paul Coomber - LCAS (Low Cat Aerodrome Supervisor)

Paul Coomber started out in the fire safety industry in 2000 as a fire extinguisher technician, which also involved holding fire safety training courses for businesses in and around Bristol. At this time he also worked for a private Fire crew that provided fire cover for public and fund raising events. He also started to work part time for the fire crew at Kemble airport helping out on weekends.  Paul was unable to continue with this due to full time work commitments, until January 2009 when he was invited to return back to Cotswold airport again on a part time bases. Paul was taken on full time in September of 2009 and went on to pass his LCAS course in November 2009. Paul has a keen interest in his local football team and enjoys spending days off with his wife Linda and his two little girls.

Paul Harris

Originally from Bristol but now lives in Wiltshire, Paul has been a fire fighter at Cotswold Airport for 7 years, 2 years of that was part time. Paul does various jobs on the airport. He is responsible for bird hazzard control and also for the fire sections PPE. Paul is a member of the St. Johns Ambulance. Before working at Cotswold Airport Paul worked for a paint manufacturing company as a hgv driver/colour matcher and was also in the works fire brigade.  He was also a part time firefighter for a local helicopter company and the Royal Bath and West show doing this for about 20 years. Paul’s hobbies include model making.