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
The revision cycle got back on track with the release of the IV th edition of Essentials in January, 1998 (Figure 25) . This was based on the 1997 edition of NFPA 1001. This edition would end up having one of the more interesting life cycles of any edition of the Essentials manual. About the same time that the IV th edition was in its early stages of development, FPP entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to translate three (3) IFSTA manuals each into four (4) different languages. The manuals included Essentials , Pumping Apparatus , and Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting . The languages were Spanish, Turkish, Italian, and German. Assistant Director Nancy Trench managed the project. The manuals would be used to train native-speaking firefighters on military base fire departments in countries that spoke those languages. FPP developed the manuals to be print- ready, and then sent the files to the DoD who printed them for their use. FPP retained the rights to print any of the 12 versions for our use and sales. Also, about the same time, FPP had been receiving more requests for manuals in Spanish. Not only from Spanish speaking countries, but from departments in the U.S. who had Hispanic members on their departments. The decision was made to test the market by printing a Spanish version of the IV th edition of the Essentials manual, as that would be the one most likely to be successful (Figure 26) . This version was printed and added to the IFSTA market line. Unfortunately, perhaps for a variety reasons, this version failed to produce any significant level of sales. Some of them were given away to fire service people who went on missions to Hispanic-speaking countries and the bulk ended up being sent to recycling. It would be 20 years before FPP made another effort to enter into the foreign language market.
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This would not be the only interesting thing that happened during the lifespan of the IV th edition. As mentioned above, the IV th edition was based on the 1997 edition of NFPA 1001. The next edition of NFPA 1001 would be released 2002. FPP Senior Editor Mike Wieder was on that committee. As the committee went through the review process, it was determined that there was no need to make any changes in the NFPA 1001 document. Thus, the 2002 version of the standard was just a mirror of the 1997 version. This posed a major question for the IFSTA/FPP leadership. Do we develop a new edition of Essentials just because we committed to developing a new edition of the manual for each new edition of NFPA 1001? Or, do we stick with the IV th edition that met the requirements of the new edition of the standard? This question was pondered by IFSTA/FPP leadership and was posed to many of the major customers/training agencies that used the manual. It was also posed to hundreds of people at various fire trade shows that were going on at this time. The overwhelming consensus of those who were polled was to continue selling the IV th edition. This would eliminate the need for organizations to revise their curriculums, tests, and other components of their training programs that would not be required to meet the new edition of NFPA 1001. Thus, the IFSTA/FPP leadership decided to delay the development of a 5 th edition of Essentials until the 2007 edition of NFPA 1001 would be released. The group also decided at that time that regardless of whether or not there were any changes in the 2007 version of the standard, IFSTA would develop the 5 th edition of Essentials at that time. If for no other reason, the manual would look dated and the design of it would not be consistent with other IFSTA manuals being developed during that period. Over the 10-year life cycle of the 4 th edition, more than 795,000 copies of the edition were sold. This averaged out to a little less than 400,000 copies per five-year cycle of the NFPA 1001 standard.
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