"Accurate pre-fire plans protect firefighters, reduce property damage
and sometimes even save lives. Despite these compelling benefits, does your
department have the resources to create and update a full complement of these
essential drawings?... Assuming you’re the Milwaukie (Ore.) Fire
Department, you hire students from the nearby Sabin Skills Center to create the
(pre-fire) plans with easy-to-use drawing software."
"...When students are hired, they’re trained to create the plans
with The Fire Zone software, a program developed by The CAD Zone, Beaverton, Or.
...Another beneficial byproduct of this community partnership is that a fire
department receives accurate, well-drawn pre-fire plans at a very reasonable
cost - an important factor given departmental budget constraints. ... The
students create a finished (Fire Zone) drawing on the computer and place it on a
disk, after which firefighters can easily update it if necessary."