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

wolfskinvfd@yahoo.com

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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.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Training - April 20

Last night was a great session. We started early, 6:30, since EDT gives us some extra daylight. The turnout was good, a dozen or so, although we missed some folks.

We had two of the trucks out working them over. We pulled the drop tank off the supertanker and filled and sucked and filled and sucked until everyone had a go at it and knows how to do it. The margarita truck is a little less automated - but everyone had a chance to do the PTO engagement to get the drive in gear so the pumper can be used for squirting water.

We took both trucks up to the head of Wolfskin Road and filled them, and it certainly is a trip to direct traffic with our little orange vests and all.

We had the trucks parked back in their bays when, what should happen, but a fire call - so everyone got in their gear and were off. Only to find that it was a controlled burn and so it was 10-22'd.

All in all, a very good training session and one that gets repeated frequently.

In less happy news, some lowlife stole a very significant amount of our building materials for the new firestation. We're asking people in the area to keep an eye out for aluminum siding and a 25-foot steel I-beam. The theft was quite an operation - it required some heavy equipment to remove the I-beam and cart it off. So if you spot these items, please DO NOT attempt to handle it yourself, but DO call the Oglethorpe County Sherrif's office. And let us know - wolfskinvfd@yahoo.com .

We want to recover these items. Replacing them is costly, for sure, but the re-engineering for new items is far more costly, so please keep your eyes peeled.

Business meeting on May 4, Thursday at 7pm. Be there!

-Wayne

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