Firefighter training drill by Forest Reeder
This week’s firefighter recruit vs. veteran drill features a discussion of master stream devices. Aerial ladders, prepiped, portable, and fast-attack types of master stream devices available to your department are valuable assets in defensive and other large water flow operations.
Discuss your department terminology, definitions, and, most importantly, how these devices are used in the streets, including all of the safety features of the master stream device. Veterans should be able to provide some real street experience to the recruit on experiences with the big guns.
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Forest Reeder began his fire service career in 1978 and retired as fire chief of the Tinley Park (IL) Fire Department in 2021. He has worked extensively in the areas of instruction, firefighter safety, and officer development and earned his Master of Science Degree in Public Safety Administration in 2004. He is the author of Fire Department Incident Safety Officer 4th edition (2025) and co-author of Fire Service Instructor Principles and Practices, now in its 3rd edition. Forest presents nationally on fire service leadership, safety, and instructor development. He was inducted into the Moraine Valley Community College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2020 and awarded the Distinguished Alumnus award in 2021. In 2008, he received the ISFSI George D. Post Instructor of the Year, considered to be the highest recognition for fire service instructors in the nation.
