Fire Run Book can be used to create a map book for each station or for the entire district. In large fire districts it may be more manageable to create a fire run book for the response area of each fire station. Units assigned to another station or mutual aid partners can share their fire run books as needed.

Configure Data Driven Pages

Fire Run Book uses Data Driven Pages to generate a single map page for each grid in the Fire Map Index feature class.

To configure Data Driven Pages to produce a fire run book, complete the following steps:

1. In the FireRunBook_Landscape.mxd or FireRunBook_Portrait.mxd click the Data Driven Pages Setup button on the Data Driven Pages toolbar.
2. Click the Definition tab, do the following:
   1. Check the Enable Data Driven Pages check box.
   2. Set Layer > Fire Map Index.
   3. Set Name Field > Map Sheet Name.
   4. Set Sort Field > Map Sheet Number.
3. Click the Extent tab, do the following:
   1. Choose Best Fit.
   2. Type 100% to set the Margin Size.
   3. Type 110% to set the Round Scale to Nearest.
4. Click OK.
5. Click the Layout View button.

Once Data Driven Pages is set up, you can navigate the map book pages by map sheet name or page number.

Select a fire station response district

Use a fire station response area to select the map pages to include in your map book.

To select the map pages, complete the following steps:

1. Open the attribute table for the Response Area layer and select the station response record for a fire station.
2. From the Selection menu, click Select by Location.
3. Choose the select features from option from the Selection method drop-down menu and choose the Fire Map Index layer as the target layer.
4. Choose the Response Area layer from the Source layer drop-down menu.
5. Check the Use selected features check box to select only the Fire Map Index features that cover the selected fire station response area.
6. Choose intersect the source layer feature from the Spatial selection method for target layer feature(s) drop-down menu.
7. Click Apply and click OK to close the dialog box.

The Fire Map Index grids for the selected response area are now selected.

Export Data Driven Pages

Export the map pages selected in the previous steps to create a fire run book for the selected fire station response area.

To export the map book pages, complete the following steps:

1. Click Export Map on the File menu and set Save as type to PDF.
2. Type a name for the map pages and save it to the Application\Output folder.
3. On the Export Map window, click Options.
4. On the General tab, for Resolution, type 300.
5. On the Pages tab, click the Selected button to export only the selected map pages and click Save.

The map pages for the response area of the selected station will be exported to a single PDF document.