70-0722 Streamwood Mutual Aid _ ., -,
MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT
/990
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this day of , I-964by and between the undersigned Cities, Villages, and Fire P o
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Districts. Elgin
WITNESSETH: Streamwood
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 partieshereto (herein after
referred to as the "respondent") for aid, respondent shall furnish to
host, equipment, personell, 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
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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 suchequipment, 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 occurence 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 thatf'the emergency is occurring in
its district.
4. The parties hereto shall form a mutual aid committee, and shall
cbnsist 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:
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(a) To make policy rules and regulations for the operation of the
mutual aid group consistant with the letter and intent of this agreement ,
subject, however, to the radification 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 liabilityfor 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 participants 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.
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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.
VILLAGE OF STREAMWOOD
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VILLAGE PRESIDENT
VILLAGE LERK
CITY OF ELGIN
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MAYOR CV
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