My Firefighter Nation
The Volunteers
Anyone who volunteers with an emergency service is welcome to join. Discussions about anything.
Mutual Aid
How does your department, county, district etc... Handle mutual aid. My county just initiated MABAS system as are mutaul aid. So my department and two other departments are automatically paged on all structure fires within are juristiction. If any more aid is needed then we initiate MABAS for any other help needed.
Tyler Louis Atkinson
We have two big towns in our county. We have a city department and a county department. The other town is just all volunteer. So when one county is toned out, pretty much the other is too. And usually when the city is toned out, we roll out with them, depending on the type of call.
May 1, 2013
John Trueman
In my county there are 7 vol depts and when a structure fire is called in, three depts are automatically toned.
May 5, 2013
steve hutchinson
Our mutual aid districts work together even out of their own districts if help is needed. Auto 2 departments called for structure fires. 911 won't dispatch the closest department if it's not in that mutual aid district, instead they dispatch a department 20 miles away. The system is ass backwards, same for ambulance out here you can only get medics that are on call, you can easily wait 30 min to get a unit to a scene.
Dec 11, 2013