Photo by Tony Greco.
By Forest Reeder
C.O.R.E. #7 drills are quick drill kick-starters for each level of job responsibility in many fire departments. Training officers or company officers can issue these at the start of a shift or a drill night to get members thinking and practicing basic skills.
The quote of the day for this edition reinforces the building of habits, good ones in these examples of things that we have to repeatedly be able to know or do. In our line of work, excellence in service delivery has to be a habit and by repeatedly preforming basic skills, we build mental and physical muscle memory by doing so!
As always, consult your department SOP/SOG or other communication directives when determining what the right answers are for each CORE drill. Have a safe training day!
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Suggested Tasks, Week 7 (PDF, 285 KB)
Forest Reederbegan hisfire servicecareer in 1979. He serves as Division Chief ofTraining&安全for the Des Plaines (IL)Fire Department. He is a past recipient of the国际消防服务教练学会（ISFSI）prestigious George D. PostInstructor of the Yearaward and has been responsible for the design, implementation and coordination of in-servicefirefighter trainingactivities as well as a full-servicefire trainingacademyprogram. Forest holds numerous Illinoisfire service认证并拥有公开硕士学位安全Administration from Lewis University.
