I-5 - Resolution 2025-011 - Automatic and Mutual Aid Agreement for Surrounding Johnson County - 2025

mutual aid. Nothing in this agreement may be construed to limit or restrict the ability of department personnel from rendering aid as a Good Samaritan or in any way waive any defense to complaints, petitions, demands, or legal claims of any kind. SECTION IV. PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT PROVIDED Member departments may identify, prepare, and preplan the number and types of units that may respond to anticipated emergency calls or incident dangerous to the public, however, the requesting and responding department will determine the appropriate and available resources at the time of an emergency call or incident dangerous to the public. Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to limit the authority of the chief or designee of a member department to create, amend, or modify response practices or procedures as the need arises. Generally, the requesting department shall include in its request for mutual aid assistance the amount and type of equipment and number of personnel requested and shall specify the location where the personnel and equipment are needed. When a department has not responded after the third (3rd) page from the request to provide automatic or mutual aid, the JECC will notify the requesting department’s incident commander over the radio. Generally, the incident commander and/or the JECC will page or dispatch the next closest member department or unit or another available department to respond unless the incident commander provides alternative instructions to the JECC. If a department does not have the resources or personnel available to respond, or if a department will be delayed in responding, they shall notify JECC and/or the requesting department’s incident commander over the radio as soon as possible. The final decision on whether to respond and/or the number, the amount, and type of equipment and personnel to be sent shall be solely that of the responding department. The responding party shall be absolved from liability in connection with all acts associated herewith. No member department shall make any claim whatsoever against another member department for refusal to send the requested equipment or personnel where such refusal is based on the judgment of the responding department that such personnel and equipment are needed to protect the district of the responding department. The responding department holds all responsibility for training structural firefighters to the minimum requirements, as stated in the Iowa Code and NFPA 1010 (formerly NFPA 1001). The responding department will make the incident commander aware of any firefighters that responded that do not meet the minimum standard, as stated in the Iowa Code, are probationary, or who are not trained to the Firefighter I standard. Notwithstanding, the parties agree that the goal is for the responding department to respond with certified firefighters when possible.