Wolfskin Volunteer Fire Department
Oglethorpe County, Northeast Georgia
Peace in Wolfskin

wolfskinvfd@yahoo.com

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Send additions, corrections, etc. to wayne@sparkleberrysprings.com.
Please note that as of the beginning of 2015, Wayne's descriptions of training are accurate, but not official. For the official reports along with attendance please contact the new
Assistant Chief and Training Officer, Charleen Foott (foott@att.net).

May 2015

May 5: (Tue 7:00pm): First Tuesday Oglethorpe Firefighters Association meeting (Farm Bureau Office in Crawford).

May 7: (Thu 6:30pm): First Thursday Business Meeting.

May 14: (Thu 6:30pm): Second Thursday Training Meeting. Discussed response responsibilities and tactics, esp in terms of going directly to scene or station, eventually decided should go to station first except: two others have indicated they're headed there; and take a look at scene but only if on way or out of way by less than 1 minutes round trip. No more than 1 minute to check out scene. Also exemption for repeated false alarms from same residence over short period of time. Strongly suggested using number of fire depts called as indicator of potential seriousness.

May 16-17: (Sat/Sun): Firefighter Weekend. Charleen and Glenn left 5:30am on Saturday and returned 6:03pm on Sunday evening. Each took a 16-hour course. CF: Training Operations in Small Departments: This course is designed to provide students with some basic tools and skills to coordinate training in a small fire/EMS organization. A training function in a smaller department typically may include conducting training drills and coordinating training with a nearby larger city or state training function. Exam: Passed. GG: Principles and Practice of Command: This course will present principles and foundations for maintaining a command presence during emergency incidents. In addition, sie ujp, tactics, strategies, and effective communications will be discussed. No exam.

May 21: (Thu 6:30pm): Third Thursday Training Meeting. Thermal Imager was charged while pumper was run for 1 hour. Practiced using booster hose, PTO, and pump.

May 28: (Thu 6:30pm): Fourth Thursday Training Meeting. Chainsaw training: TM and MP went over prepping chainsaw with gas mix and oil, chain blade tightness, starting and safety measures, and fundamentals of cutting up medium diameter trees. (Phyllis arrived and took photos for newsletter, 30 minutes.)

June 2015

Jun 2: (Tue 7:00pm): First Tuesday Oglethorpe Firefighters Association meeting (Farm Bureau Office in Crawford).

NOTE: Jun 3: (Wed 6:30pm): Business Meeting. Changed to Wed night Jun 3 because of unexpected difficulties with attendance on Thu Jun 4 by several members. Sorry! This happens very infrequently.

Jun 6: (Sat 9:00am): County wide training - Search and Rescue. 1096 Elberton Road. See OCFFA Description for details and contact info.

NOTE: Jun 11: (Thu 6:30pm): NOTE: Postponed to 6:30pm Friday Jun 12. Second Thursday Training Meeting. We'll be looking over SalemVFD's brush truck. Sorry about the late notification.

Jun 18: (Thu 6:30pm): Third Thursday Training Meeting.

Jun 25: (Thu 6:30pm): Fourth Thursday Training Meeting.

July 2015

Jul 2: (Thu 6:30pm): First Thursday Business Meeting.

Sunday, September 25, 2005

The Genie-weenie Super Tanker

Response to this post:

Friday, September 23, 2005
A Question:

"Our favorite cat is named Gene. We call him Genie-weenie. If we contribute $8000 to WVFD, can we name the supertanker Genie-weenie? "

As far as the Fire Chief is concerned, that supertanker is “The Genie-weenie!” (Ranking somewhere above The Queen Mary.) Geenie-weenie can have his own life-size bust riding up on the dash, along side the wolf skull with the blinking red eye sockets. He can pose for Photos by Wingate with his favorite dead prey, big antlers, whatever, in his rhinestone suit by Nudie, feathers and golden boots more resplendent than Puss ‘N’ Boots’; and post his likeness as he so likes on the polished stainless steel tank. First Cat of Wolfskin! Can he handle the overnight fame?

Geenie–weenie’s legend and spirit will live on, riding on every tanker run, safeguarding the good people of Wolfskin, Oglethorpe County, and the entire Southeast across FEMA Region IV, long after he has passed on over the rainbow to the great fireground in the sky.

Mary and I, being not quite the high rolling contributors as Genie-weenie’s Godfathers, request the toilets named for us (Mary’s idea): The Mary N. and Phyllis J. Memorial Crappers. Frankie will be SO envious… Gosh, people can memorialize their old friends from all over the US!!! Unique Christmas present! Just pick an item to name for them, for a contribution: truck bays, the pumper truck, showers, training room, the new fire station/disaster shelter itself—where we can provide neighbors in need with a roof over their head and a hot meal, and lighten their load with some humor. No doubt there will be heavy demand for toilet plaques. Love it!!! We’ll send out Official Certificates, and then photos of their items and commemorative plaques! They’ll make pilgrimages to Wolfskin to visit their shrine. You go, Geenie-weenie-kitty-boy! You inspire us all!

Wayne, thanks so much for setting up our Wolfskin VFD website. Wow, I had no idea I’d get so excited about it until I just now logged on! Way cool. (And thanks for the nice compliment.)

Phyllis

posted by Wayne Hughes @ 7:45 PM

1 Comments:

At September 25, 2005 10:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's see if the comments work.

Well, I don't want to disappoint Genie-weenie, but dad won't be able to come up with QUITE that kind of contribution. Maybe somebody will though.

I've got some additions to make still, but want to be able to add a paypal link and other info I need to discover.

Love the idea of purchasable honoraria!

 

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