Training Update - May 18

Just to remind you - the Woodland Fire Training that WolfskinVFD will be hosting is 8 hours a day on the weekends of June 3-4 and Jun 10-11. The controlled burn will be either Sunday the 4th or Saturday the 10th, as I understand it (depending on which day the GA Forestry Commission decides is the best).

Our area is heavily forested, and we have periods of considerable drought in the summer and autumn, so this is an important training event for all firefighters who can make it.

For that training event, you will need to register and you will need your own equipment, including boots - contact us for more information.

So the first part of our training session was to be sized for bootware. Then a few of us had had recent CPR training but for the rest of us it had been awhile so we decamped to Mary's house where, as a professional, she had set up to do a CPR training session.

Mary did a great job. There were seven of us to be refreshed and recertified, and that's a pretty sizeable group to go through all the exercises individually. Mary handled it perfectly. I had had my training quite a few years ago and was no longer confident in the procedures, which have been considerably updated. That earlier training was fine, but Mary's was full of a lot of situational scenarios and clues and hints that the earlier training hadn't covered.

The poor mannikans had their chests pumped and their plastic lungs filled over and over, and by the end of it they were probably more tired than we were, and all they got for their trouble was a clorox wash. On the other hand - they didn't have to take the "short test". (Which we all passed!)

-Wayne