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

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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.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Very Early Morning Call

No pics here: 4:30am Monday morning - Wolfskin gets a live test of taking care of a woodland fire. The pager goes off, car on fire somewhere on Double Bridges Road, Wolfskin called out. We were already up, the nocturnal animals (during the summer) that we are, but by the time we were dressed and at the station at 4:45 the pumper was already gone. Maybe Mike and Frankie are nocturnal animals too, but they were still ahead of us! So we proceeded on down Double Bridges Road and found the situation close to Highway 78. Someone had apparently torched a car on the side of road and the fire had spread to a quarter acre or so of woods.

A phenomenal ten folks showed up from Wolfskin by 5am and two Athens-Clarke County trucks and an Arnoldsville truck. I'd name us all but some folks don't want to be named so take my word for it.

Athens-Clarke County took care of the car; we patrolled the woods putting out the fire, avoiding the festoons of poison ivy, and then wet mopped for an hour or so. It was actually kind of invigorating, in an early early morning sort of way, and it was real nice to see our partners all there. Later A-CC came back and drenched the woods to be sure.

Our PPE pants, gloves, and shirt are finally broken in, smudged, and hanging out to dry. I have no intention of washing them until that dirt and smut becomes ingrained - it’s a kind of record of activity that we don’t want to erase away.

-Wayne

posted by Wayne Hughes @ 5:12 AM

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