Welcome to Jefferson County Fire District 5
2000 Old Gardiner Road,
Gardiner, WA. 98382-8778
360-797-7711
Jefferson County Fire District # 5
Chief's Newsletter
4/28/2008
First off I want to express my appreciation to those of
you that have attended the wild land training this month. Don Svetich has
done a great job of leading the refresher course and I want to thank him for the
time he put in. Remember to review your wild land PPE and make sure you
have everything you might need. How are your boots and gloves? Break
them in if they are new!
For those of us with the red card, we will be doing the pack test sometime in
May or early June. I suggest you start walking ASAP to prepare. Three
miles, forty five pound in forty five minutes is the requirement.
The Board of Commissioners and I have been working on the Station # 52 building
project. Out of five agencies that submitted letters of interest Craig
Owen from Port Angeles has been picked as the project engineer by the Board.
He will start on April 29th doing measurements and looking into some of the
walls.
I submitted a proposal to the Board of Commissioners to purchase a 1991 Ford
E350 ambulance that has a gross vehicle weight of 15,000 lbs. The unit has
approximately 35,000 miles on it and comes with maintenance records. We
secured the vehicle for $6500.00 from Fort Loramie Fire Rescue in Ohio.
Dick Hanel has offered to make the journey back to pick the unit up. The
ambulance should be here by May 9th.
Firefighters / EMT’s Jay Stickney and Jason Royer assisted Steve Monroe with
putting a hard wire phone line into the emergency operations room at the
Gardiner Community Center.
FF / EMT- IV Eric Brucker attended the Gardiner Community yard sale. He
provided free blood pressure checks to the community.
We replaced the two front tires on Aid # 51 and worked on the shore power
charger on Aid # 52.
Lt. Shawn Moos resigned from the fire district last week. I am sorry to
see him leave but I do understand his desire to be with his son and his need to
search for work outside the area. I want to thank Shawn for the many years
of dedicated service he gave to the community.
George DeBruyn has had to quit the EMT class for personal reasons. He will
stay on in a support role which I am very thankful for! At the next Board
meeting, the Board will be considering a new recruit that lives just west of the
District boundary. She is currently enrolled in the EMT class so hopefully
after graduation she will be able to lend a hand on occasion. The reason I
put it that way is she has a full time job and two children.
The Board and I will be working on short and long term
planning over the next couple of months. Community input will be greatly
appreciated as we move forward in our attempt to provide service to the
Discovery Bay / Gardiner areas. Over the next several months we will be
putting out volunteer needed signs and possibly go door to door in an attempt to
find firefighter / EMT candidates. I realize that this service is not for
everyone, but someone needs to fill the void. Otherwise, response will be
delayed at a time when help might be needed most for you or your loved ones.
Please feel free to call me if you have any ideas, suggestions or concerns!
Sincerely,
Bob Wilson
Fire Chief
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Joint Awards Banquet
Below are pictures from this years Joint Awards Banquet, see story below. (Click on picture to see full sized image.)
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Chief’s Newsletter
December 4th, 2007
Greetings:
Congratulations to Barb Knoepfle in her bid for the seat of fire commissioner!
Barb has also just successfully completed an EMT IV certification class.
Awesome!
I want to acknowledge Bev Horan for her years of service to the community.
Thank you Bev for all that you have done and we sincerely want to wish you the
best in the coming years.
Fire District # 2 & # 5 held our joint awards banquet on November 30th at the
Quilcene School. The dinner was provided by the Quilcene High School
Vocational Cooking Class. Eighty individuals attended and they were served
a prime rib dinner. The guest speaker addressing the volunteers and guest
was Bridgette Smith Executive Director of the Board of Volunteer Firefighters
Pension and Relief Fund. Jay Stickney and Jason Royer jointly received the
2007 Recruit of the Year award. Barb Knoepfle and Eric Brucker each received
Emergency Medical Technician award for 2007. Jim Koutnik and Joe Vierra each
received the 2007 Firefighter of the Year award.
Jason Royer and Jay Stickney from Quilcene will be graduating from the North
Kitsap Fire Academy on December 8th. They have both done extremely well in
the class and we look forward to working with them in the future. Most
importantly, we will work to help them in their attempt to become career
firefighters. Both Jay and Jason will be helping with some of the shift coverage
for the Gardiner / Discovery Bay community.
Stephanie Batson should be winding up the Clallam County EMT class this month. I
am sure Stephanie will do just fine through the testing process. We look
forward to having her on Board as a responder.
The SCBA’s hydro testing project is in the last round of bottles being shipped
over. Flow testing on the SCBA regulators will take place in December.
We will be holding a small mini fire academy for the new staff starting in late
January. The classes will be Friday 6-930pm and Saturday 830-5pm each week
for three weeks. Our desire is to have the students review the book and computer
classes prior to attending the classes.
I want to wish each of you a great time during Christmas and New Years. Be
Safe!
Sincerely,
Bob Wilson
Fire Chief
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 Barb Knoepfle Chief's Award |
 Esther Johnson Commisoner's Award |
 Klaus Hintermayr Volunteer of the Year |
 Willie Knoepfle Office of the Year |
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