NIMBUS FIRE

Safer Fire Fighting

PLI are pleased to announce that we have been appointed as a Special Vehicle Supplier to public sector organisations through the awarding of the Firebuy pan government framework agreement.

Who are we?

Richard Baker ex Surrey Fire Service and Iain McWilliam from West Midlands Fire Service bring together over 70 years of emergency service experience in operational, prevention and training backgrounds. Their combined expertise and enthusiasm and energy will raise the profile of safer fire fighting in the UK.

Iain McWilliam was Station Commander and then Deputy Divisional Commander for one of the busiest divisions in the UK, he was also a founder member of C.U.E.E.S., which was launched in 1989. C.U.E.E.S. organised the annual road accident extrication competition in the UK from 1989-2002, which is now organised by the UK Rescue Organisation. He is a Member of The Institution of Fire Engineers and a Justice of the Peace. Iain has trained fire services all over the world on the use and tactical application of COBRA in the past 6 years, ranging from Australia and Malaysia to the UK.

Richard Baker, is Chief Fire Officer for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after setting up from scratch a fully functional fire, rescue and ambulance service based on UK standards. This now covers Kenya as well and includes air ambulance response covering some 588,000 square miles. Richard was co-author of The Energy Institute’s code of practice on the product and vehicle recovery of low flash products transported by road tanker and was founder of the national Vehicle Fire Investigation course which has IFE CPD. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, Associate Member of the Society of Operational Engineers and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Vehicle Recovery. He is also author of the Police Blue Book on dealing with HAZMAT incidents, author of the risk management distant learning BSc programme for the University of Hong Kong, author of the Police and Forensic Science Fire Investigation handbook and Exercise Director for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Counter Terrorism Exercises in Central and East Africa.

Richard and Iain are fully qualified instructors, fire safety officers and experienced fire officers who have taken command of many demanding fire and rescue situations both in the UK and overseas. The new response unit based on a VW Crafter 5t van with both road accident and medical capability, PLI is set to provide an essential tactical fire fighting tool by the UK Fire & Rescue Services