I-6 - Resolution 2024-053 - Johnson County Mutual Aid 28E Agreement 2024

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, JECC will notify the requesting department’s incident commander over the radio. Generally, the incident commander and/or 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 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. Member departments shall provide training regarding this agreement, MABAS, and common response guidelines to all the department’s personnel who may respond to automatic or mutual aid under this agreement. Member departments may offer and make available training opportunities, training props, and/or other training resources to each other. It is the intent of the parties to allow for and encourage departments to share and make available training to other departments’ personnel and to conduct joint training, drills, and exercises. Member departments shall conduct joint training at a minimum with other departments whom they are most likely to request assistance from, or provide assistance to, under this agreement. The chief of each member department or the chief’s designee(s) will evaluate and identify training needs with consideration of the risks and hazards of their first-due districts. Generally, chiefs or their designees should collaborate on joint training topics, drills, or exercises. Training topics and the frequency of the training, drills, or exercises will be determined by, and may be agreed on, between the member departments’ chiefs or designees.