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All The News That's Fit To Print
August 2006
Warren Uboldi-Judy Gulson Memorial
Scholarship awarded to five college bound Kenwood youth. Four of the
recipients are recent high school graduates and soon to be college freshmen and
one recipient is entering his third year of univeristy. Congratulations to all
the recipients.
September 2005 - Kenwood
Wins Annual Firefighter Waterfights Championship <-Click
for more
March 2004 - College and Trade School
Scholarships
Scholarship applications are now being
accepted through April 15th. For more information and rules or to pick up an
application package please stop by the firehouse at the corner of Sonoma
Highway and Randolph St. Open to residents of the Kenwood Fire Protection
District only.
Jan 2004
Toby Halkovich promoted to Captain. Toby now gets to wear a red
helmet and assume many new responsibilities. Congratulations Toby.
2003
Kenwood Fire welcomed two new
"junior" members to our firefighter family this year. Darren and
Michelle Bellach welcomed Tyler to our ranks on May 21, 2003. Adding to the
family were Toby and Andrea Halkovich who welcomed Hunter on September 30,
2003 .
Welcome to our new Junior Firefighters.
February 16, 2003 - Golden Bear Lodge Fire
At
300AM on Sunday morning Kenwood FPD along with several other local agencies was
dispatched to a reported structure fire at the historic Golden Bear Lodge. The
first on scene engine reported that the building was fully involved. Throughout
the night engines and water tenders from Glen Ellen, Santa Rosa, Rincon Valley,
Bennett Valley, Sonoma Valley, and Schell-Vista fire departments responded with
mutual aid to the scene. (A sincere thank you for all your efforts.)
Unfortunately and despite the best efforts by all firefighters and agencies
involved the 6000sf structure was an almost total loss.
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Father and son firefighter team of Jim and Brian Fletcher man Water
Tender 3197. |
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Captain Jim
Bragg directs a hose stream onto the burning structure. |
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March 3, 2002 - Kenwood FPD Participates in Live Fire Training Exercise.
Schellville CA - Kenwood FPD and several other Sonoma Valley fire departments
along with Napa and American Canyon fire departments conducted a two day live
fire training exercise at the south end of the Sonoma Valley. Local winery
owner and scion Sam Sebastiani graciously allowed us to conduct the exercise at
a 3500 square foot house he owned that was scheduled for demolition. In short,
we burned Sams house down. Thanks mucho Sam!
This two day exercise allowed firefighters to train under real life fire
conditions and practice such skills as ventilation, search and rescue, RIT,
hose stream control, pump operations, coordinated attack, and much more.
September 29, 2001 - Kenwood wins annual firemans water
fights.
Sonoma CA. - The Kenwood waterfight team broke a
thirteen year drought and walked away with the coveted championship trophy. The
annual competition, held in conjunction with the Sonoma Harvest Festival,
matched teams from several departments in the Sonoma Valley.
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Team Kenwood basks in the thrill of victory.
Standing from left to right - Jack Ayers, Toby Halkovitch, Travis Berg, Gary
Uboldi, Loren Davis & Zack Miller. Kneeling - Daren Bellach & Bernie
Fitzpatrick
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Firemans waterfights are played by stringing a large aluminum beer keg along
a 100 foot steel cable. Each team, consisting of two hoses with three
firefighters on each hose, attempts to advance the keg across the opponents
goal line. If the keg or any part of the cable touches a firefighter or if a
firefighter falls down it is counted as a foul against their team. Two team fouls
scores a point to the opposing team. Scoring a goal is
one point.
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Some friendly
waterfight action. Notice the barrel elevated about five feet off the ground.
That's what can happen when it's getting hammered by four fire hoses producing
water streams of 140psi each. |
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Other teams included Glen Ellen Fire Department, CDF
(California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection), Mayacamas Fire
Protection District, Eldridge Fire Department, Valley Of The Moon Fire
Department, Sonoma Fire Department, and Shell-Vista Fire Department.
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