Lynn Hughes

lead instructional developer of "Building Construction Related to the Fire Service," Fourth Edition

December 16, 2016

Growing up on a black sheep farm in south central Kansas with Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanical College (now OSU)-graduate parents, Lynn Hughs began teaching adults hand spinning and natural dyeing at the age of five. Education has been her lifelong career: teaching grades 7-12 Home Economics at USD #378 Riley County, KS, working as an education consultant with Special Populations and Corrections at the Kansas State Department of Education, working for the Oklahoma State Department of Career and Technology Education as the Program Specialist for Health Occupations Education and State Health Occupations Student Organization State Advisor, becoming and working as a nationally certified therapeutic massage therapist, and working as an instructional developer of curriculum for Fire Protection Publications/International Fire Service Training Association at Oklahoma State University. Proud wife of 31 years to Marc Hughes, parent of two grown children, daughter Chauncey Monroe, Staff Sargent in the United States Air Force, and son, Connor Hughes, current OSU Plant and Soil Sciences major. Her "free time" is spent rebuilding their home destroyed by the May 19, 2013, tornado, riding their Honda GoldWing motorcycle, and teaching rug hooking.

"Building Construction Related to the Fire Service," Fourth Edition is intended to furnish the reader with basic information about how buildings are designed and constructed. This information will aid in decision making related to fire prevention and fire control. Whether enforcing fire codes, inspecting buildings, developing pre-incident plans, fighting fires, directing fire ground operations, overseeing firefighter safety, or investigating fires, a thorough understanding of building construction principles and practices as these relate to fire behavior and fire load will enable firefighters to make better, safer, and more timely decisions to protect people and property from potential and actual fires. Although this manual is not based on an NFPA^® standard, many principles discussed in this text mirror NFPA^® job performance requirements from standards such as NFPA^® 1001, 1006, 1021, and 1031.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/lynn-hughs

Last Updated: 12 January 2022