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.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Busy Weekend in Wolfskin

On our regular business meeting Oct 4 we all marvelled at the lack of fire calls in September, especially given the exceptional drought we've been in since the beginning of summer. September and October daily highs have regularly been 10-20 degF above normal, and you'd have thought that fire calls would have been more frequent.

The next day, on one of our regular 7-10 mile bike rides on the back roads in Wolfskin District, our luck ended. The pager went off as we were returning early Friday evening and we peddled madly back to the POVs and off to the fire station. The call was for a woods fire a bit northeast of Arnoldsville, and we worked with Arnoldsville VFD, Beaverdam VFD, and Crawford VFD until 9:30PM on that.

Then on Sunday morning, and again during a 10-mile bike ride way out in the dirt road sticks, the pager went off. This time we were at least a half-hour away from the POVs, so we had to call for a lift - fortunately Glenn was able to pick us up and drop us off.

This time it was a chickenhouse fire in the northwest part of the county. Lots of departments involved - at least ten fire trucks of various sorts. Wolfskin, Beaverdam, Arnoldsville, Crawford, Winterville, Devil's Pond, Pleasant Hill, Salem VFDs all present (let me know if I missed anyone!). We worked on that until well into the mid-afternoon, before leaving.

Within 30 minutes after returning home, the pager went off for a return - they needed the WVFD tanker and all available manpower. I was off to work and so was unable to participate, but everyone was involved in that until at least 7pm Sunday night. This time Red Cross and EMS had special treats for everyone, and thanks to them for that.

A busy weekend in Oglethorpe County.

posted by Wayne Hughes @ 5:25 AM

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