SENTIALS OF FIRE FIGHTING® AND RESCUE CTURAL FIRE FIGHTING: INITIAL RESPONSE STRATEGY AND TACTICS
PUMPING AND AERIAL APPARATUS DRIVER/OPERATOR HANDBOOK
CHIEF OFFICER OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH, AND WELLNESS FIRE INSPECTION AND CODE ENFORCEMENT
VE FIRE INSTRUCTOR
Within a few years, as the organization continued to grow, it was clear that Ann could not keep up with all of the work by herself. In 1979, Don Davis was hired to develop a graphics design department. He quickly hired a fulltime artist to develop the illustrations that were needed. Ann specialized in the design and layout of the manuals headed to the printer, although she continued to develop illustrations, as well. When the switch was made to using phototypesetting to develop the text for layout, two phototypesetters, Desa (Porter) Kinnunen and Karen (Murphy) Flora, were added to the Graphics Unit to develop this component. As new technologies became available, the Graphics Unit sought to transition to total electronic product development. The IBM computers that were introduced with new FPP building were not suitable for the type of electronic design work that the Graphics Unit was transitioning to. Apple Macintosh computers were much more suitable for this type of work and the Graphics Unit switched to these to perform their work, including layout and graphics design. Apple computers remain the Graphics Unit computer of choice to this day.
Figure 17
Today, almost all of the pre-press print product development is performed digitally, using a number of design programs to meet the needs of our organization. This includes the development of art and illustrations, preparation of photographs for print, and layout of the pages in preparation for going to the
printer. Files are sent to the printer digitally. Changes to the Validation Process
In addition to changes in the organizational and leadership structures, so too has the validation process changed as the organization grew during the 1970s. As was previously noted, the first change was to split conference participants members into individual manual committees, as opposed to all attendees listening to one person read the draft to them (Figure 18) . In this new system, occasionally some members assigned to a committee were not true subject-matter experts on the topic being addressed. There was also concern that the make-up of the committees may be biased towards a certain population or region of the fire service. Yet another change to the process was needed.
Figure 18
22 IFSTA /FPP: THE FIRST 90 YEARS
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