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HomeMy WebLinkAbout68-1001 South Elgin Mutual Aid • • r f` • • . , . MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this / ay of eV , 196$ by and between the undersigned Cities, Villages, and Fire Protection Districts. WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, each of the parties hereto maintains equipment and personnel for the prevention and control of fires or other emergencies within its own territory, and WHEREAS, fires and other emergencies occur within the jurisdictional areas of the respective parties hereto from time to time which may require equipment and personnel beyond its own resources and facilities, and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to provide a system of mutual aid and assistance in meeting such a situation, and WHEREAS, it is mutually deemed sound, desirable, practicable, and beneficial for the parties to this agreement to render assistance to one another in accordance with these terms: NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, it is agreed as follows: 1. Upon oral request by one party hereto (herein after referred to as the "host") to any one or more other partieiereto (herein after referred to as the "respondent") for aid, respondent shall furnish to host, equipment, persod'el,,l, and supplies at the site of the fire or other emergency, but only under the following conditions: (a) The request shall be made by the hosts ' chief, or in his absence, the duly authorized officer in charge. (b) The request shall be transmitted to the telephone maintained by respondent for taking fire and other emergency calls. ( c) The request shall specify that it is a mutual aid call, the type of equipment, supplies, and/or personnel needed, the location to which the assistance is to be dispatched, and by authority of whom. (d) Respondent shall furnish any equipment, supplies, or personnel to the host, consistent with its responsibility to provide fire pro- tection within its own territory. To that end, each respondent may retain in its own territory suc} equipment, supplies, and personnel as it deems necessary to provide fire protection within its own territory. (e) Upon request for assistance, respondent shall acknowledge to host its ability to dispatch equipment, supplies, and/or personnel. (f) Deployment of respondent 's equipment shall be in host, and operation of respondent 's equipment and personnel shall be in respondent. Respondent may withdraw its equipment and personnel at any time, if conditions in its own territory so necessitate. 2. Each party shall furnish the other party with a map of its territory, showing the roads and any other data useful in finding the location of a fire or emergency, and a list of equipment, supplies , or personnel normally available for mutual aid. 3. For the purpose of this agreement, a respondent shall be deemed to have furnished mutual aid in the following situations: (a) Upon furnishing aid under the terms and conditions of this agreement, whether the host is also furnishing equipment and personnel at the site, or whether the host, because of the simultaneous occurrence of a fire or other emergency, is furnishing its equipment and/or personnel in another part of its district or in another district. (b) Upon furnishing fire and other emergency equipment and personnel in a territory other than its own on the request of a third person, provided that respondent simultaneously and immediately notifies the chief or his duly authorized officer (as per item lb) of the territory in which such fire or other emergency is occurring and where practical receives his authorization, or provided that respondent attempts to so notify such chief, and failing to reach him, furnishes such equipment or personnel. ( c) Upon furnishing fire and other emergency equipment and personnel on the mistaken assumption or belief that the emergency is occurring in its district. 4. The parties hereto shall form a mutual aid committee, and shall consist of one representative from each party. The committee shall elect its own chairman, who shall serve for one year or until his successor is elected and qualified. The committee 's powers are as follows: A • • • • j (a) To make policy rules and regulations for the operation of the mutual aid group consistent with the letter and intent of this agreement , subject, however, to the ratification of the parties hereto. (b) To perform such other duties as the parties may from time to time direct , or as may otherwise be set forth in this agreement. (c ) The committee shall meet at regular intervals , but not less than annually. 5. No charge of any kind shall be made by any respondent in render- ing aid to a host, except for certain specified supplies or disproportion- ate conditions. The said Mutual Aid Committee, in addition to its other powers and duties, shall set general guide lines in determining dis- proportinate aid and the amount of remuneration therefore. The committee shall arbitrate any disputed claims for disproportionate aid and no party hereto shall utilize any other means, including law suits,to settle such disputes until the matter has been referred to the committee and a recommendation given by it. 6. In participating in a mutual aid fire or other emergency, each participant , including, but not restricted to, the host , shall assume all liability for injuries or death to its personnel and damage to its equipment, and all liability/for personal injury and property damage caused by it and suffered by third persons. No respondent shall be held liable for any loss or damage by reason of its failure to effectively combat, or by reason of its negligence in combatting any emergency in the host 's territory. 7. The agents , servants , or representatives of each respondent (while furnishing aid in accordance with this agreement) shall be deemed to be employees, servants, agents, or representatives of their own municipality and shall be considered as acting in the cause of their own employment of their respective municipality. $. The word "territory" of a participant hereto when used herein shall include the area within the participant's municipality and also the area outside the corporate limits that such party is obligated to serve with fire protection. 9. Any party hereto may withdraw from this agreement upon giving thirty (30) days written notice of its intention to do so upon each other party. • M ♦ 10. Any party hereto which fails to comply with this agreement and the rules and regulations to be promulgated hereunder shall cease to be a party to this agreement. A party hereto which refuses to ratify policy, rules and regulations promulgated by the Committee and ratified by a majority of the parties shall cease to be a party hereto. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective parties hereto have executed this agreement on the date first written herein persuant to granted by its respective corporate authority. 1, • ' A1 r _2/ 7:6ar.„, )1,3-44,4/ e 1 I MAY oe... MO-1-(1.