Wolfskin Volunteer Fire Department - Welcome

This is our first post on our new blog. Wolfskin VFD is a volunteer fire department located in the Wolfskin District of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

If you're not familiar with Oglethorpe County, it's in Northeast Georgia; the Piedmont region of Georgia, east of Athens-Clarke County and about 100 miles northeast of Atlanta. We're not in the mountains, but are in the rolling hills.

Among our colleagues are Beaverdam VFD, Vesta VFD, Arnoldsville VFD, and quite a few others in Oglethorpe County. Although Wolfskin has gone through a lot of changes in the last ten or twenty years, we like to pay our special appeciation to neighboring Oconee County Volunteer Fire Department, which has contributed a lot of materiel to us and has basically taken care of and covered for us during lean years, as have several other VFDs mentioned above.

The news this week is that Jon Huff of our own VFD and Wayne Wallace, chief of Vesta VFD, have volunteered and left last Sunday night for the Gulf Coast area. I haven't heard what has happened since then, but they were both excited and anxious about what was going to happen. Wayne leaves behind an 18-month child, and we're certainly going to miss Jon while he's gone.

Our fire chief is the fabulous Phyllis Jackson, and we'll have more to say about her and our department in the future. Right now we're in the process of setting up a new firehouse to replace our old one, Phyllis and others have landed two major grants, the latest one of which has gotten us a new supertanker that will reduce the insurance ratings of folks in our community from Level 9 to Level 8, saving them plenty of $.

The weather here is hot and dry, and has been increasingly so since the beginning of August. We're getting a little worried about the possibility of woodland fires, and would like a little rain please.

Keep on coming back for more news from Oglethorpe County and Wolfskin District.