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Permalink Reply by steve price on December 26, 2008 at 11:06pm

we have a couple of mutual aid agreements with two jurisdictions on our borders and one across the river form us
there is a small group of volunteers that joke about going on a mutual aid call to North Tonawanda " here we come to save the day! " because we usualy respond when NTFD has lost control of the situation. but when we have a working fire we call NTFD to fill our headquarters,and Brighton volunteer fire company form the Town of Tonawanda to respond to the scene as a FAST (RIT) team. but we rarely get called to the Town except for second or third alarms, we do occasionaly get called to Grand Island

Permalink Reply by Ittywah on January 26, 2009 at 3:46pm

Wayne County, NC fire dispatch is centralized and automatically will tone-out mutual aide departments based on the need and location of the fire. Wayne County also supplies mutal aide to neighboring counties with departments located just inside our county borders. Wayne County is all volunteer Fire Departments. (Although there are some stations that have part-time paid employees (usually from the City Fire Dept. that do administrative, maintenance and utility work when there are no calls.))

Permalink Reply by Daniel on February 2, 2009 at 1:16am

dispatch automatically will tone-out mutual aide departments for fires and based on location of the fire and we also supplies mutal aide to neighboring cites

Permalink Reply by Lt. Ballinger on February 14, 2009 at 11:07pm

In the state of Illinois we have MABAS( Mutual Aid Box Alarm System) agreements with all of our neighbors. They are broke down into Still Alarm( Our dept). Box Alarm( 2 neighboring dept's) 1st-5th alarms( Each alarm gives you more equipment)They also are set up to have dept's move up to our stations and cover our district until we have units available. Because during the day most of the area dept's have a limited number of available personel they have gone to what is called "automatic aid" For example our neighboring dept to the north automaticaly dispatches an engine from one dept, a RIT team from another, and I think a squad company from a third neighboring dept for any reported structure fire or commercial fire alarm. If you want I can e-mail you an example of what one of our MABAS cards looks like for refference to how it works. If we just need an extra engine or a special piece of equipment that someone has but don't need everyone on the alarm, then we just do a Mutual Aid response which means the dispatcher calls that dept direct and asks them instead of MABAS uses its own frequency to dispatch all the responding dept's.