Purpose of the Plan

• To provide for rapid systematic mobilization, organization, and operation of necessary fire and rescue resources in mitigating the effects of extraordinary events. Local officials will maintain fire and rescue resources consistent with anticipated needs.
• To provide an annually-updated fire and rescue inventory of all personnel, apparatus, and equipment.

Planning Basis

• No community has resources sufficient to cope with any and all emergencies for which potential exists.
• Fire and rescue officials must pre-plan emergency operations to ensure efficient utilization of available resources.

Policies

The following policies form the basis of the Paradise City Fire Department Mutual Aid Plan. This Plan presupposes that all member departments provide the ability to handle normal incidents for their city or district. Each jurisdiction shall make a major commitment of its own resources before calling mutual aid.

• Resources respond to the jurisdiction requiring mutual aid as requested in one or more of the following resource configurations:
  • Single Resource - Any single fire suppression resource.
  • Alarm Assignment - Two Engines, one Truck, one Chief Officer.
  • Strike Team - Five Engines, one Chief Officer.
  • Task Force - Any group of resources temporarily assembled for a specific mission as specified by the requesting agency, One Chief Officer.
• Each jurisdiction shall be responsible to call back off-duty personnel and staff reserve apparatus as soon as possible for any incident involving mutual aid.
• Mutual aid companies may be utilized by the requesting jurisdiction at the scene to control the incident, or staged as an emergency resource near the incident, but should be released once mop-up operations begin.
• Mutual aid resources are sent directly to the requesting agency with minimum delay. Immediate need requests require Code 3 response.
• Apparatus responding under this plan shall come under the authority and direction of the Incident Commander of the jurisdiction receiving the aid.

Mutual Aid Units

We offer the following units for mutual aid:

• Five Engine companies
• Five Brush Patrols
• Four Truck companies
• Two Rescue companies
• One Hazardous Incident Response Team
• Two Fire Boats
• Two Fire Helicoptors
• One Water Tender
• One Field Communications Unit
• Two Battalion Chiefs
• All of our Special Operations Command units
• All of our Support (Utility) units

IN WITNESS WHEREOF this agreement has been executed and approved and is effective and operative as to each of the parties as herein provided.

Paradise City Fire Department

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