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

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Send additions, corrections, etc. to wayne@sparkleberrysprings.com.
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.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Events of February

We held our First Thursday Business Meeting on March 6. A number of accomplishments that should not go unnoted:

The Assistant Chief and Chief Ed Frey journeyed to Forsyth on Feb 29 Friday for a structure burn class. This ended up going until after 9pm, and they were tired firefighters indeed.

The yearly Firefighter Weekend occurs a little early this year, also in Forsyth, Mar 14-16. Four of us, at least, will be going this year: Phyllis and Glenn will be taking the NIMS Intro to Unified Command course, Wayne the Georgia Fire Incident Reporting System course, and Andy the Intro to Wildland & Wildland Urban Interface Firefighting.

Brian, besides implementing the fantastic logo placements on the tanker and pumper, is spending his spring break in south Georgia, conducting prescribed burns. Before he left he passed the CPR with flying colors and took the Mod 1 written exam as a challenge. We'll look forward to his return.

Phyllis, our former Fire Chief, has returned after a year of regeneration. She sold $2,126 of steer raffle tickets to benefit the fire department. That's a huge amount of work, and many thanks to her. See her letter to the Editor of the Oglethorpe Echo of March 6, but she's right in thanking the Commercial Bank for its steadfast support:
Once again our Oglethorpe County Volunteer Fire Departments have benefited tremendously from another successful steer raffle fundraiser. We thank the Commercial Bank which for many years—about ever since I can remember—has bought the champion steer from an Oglethorpe County youth at the Washington-Wilkes Steer Show and then donated the steer to the volunteer fire departments for the raffle. It’s a win-win deal all the way ‘round. The youth gets a good price for his/her steer, some lucky person gets a steer for a $1 raffle ticket, and each VFD gets to keep all the money from their own ticket sales.


Let me know if I missed anyone!

--Wayne

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