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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWest Benton Regional Fire Authority - Mutual Aid AgreementORIGINAL Mutual Aid Agreement THIS AGREEMENT is entered into between City of Yakima and West Benton Regional Fire Authority, both Washington State Municipal Corporations, under the authority of RCW 52.12.031 and RCW 39.34. 1. Each of the parties owns and maintains equipment for the suppression of fires and for the supplying of rescue/emergency medical services. Each of the parties also retains firefighting personnel who are trained to provide levels of fire suppression and rescue/emergency medical services. 2. In the event of a major fire, disaster or other emergency, each of the parties may need the assistance of the other party to provide supplemental fire suppression and/or rescue/emergency medical service equipment and personnel. 3. Each of the parties has the necessary equipment and personnel to enable it to provide such services to the other party in the event of such an emergency. 4. The geographical boundaries of each party are located in such a manner as to enable each party to render mutual aid services to the other. THE PARTIES, to carry out the purposes and functions described above and in the consideration of the benefits to be received by each of the parties, agree as follow: 1. Request for Assistance. The commanding officer of the fire department or the officer in charge of a fire unit or a rescue/emergency service unit at the scene of an emergency, of either party, is authorized to request assistance from the other party if confronted with an emergency situation at which the requesting party has need for equipment or personnel in excess of that available at the requesting parties fire department. 2. Response to Request. Upon receipt of such a request, the commanding officer of the party receiving the request, shall immediately take the following action: a. Determine if the responding party has the equipment and personnel available to respond to the requesting party and determine the nature of the equipment and number of personnel available. b. Determine what available equipment and what available personnel should be dispatched in accordance with the operating plans and procedures established by the parties. c. In the event the needed equipment and personnel are available, to dispatch such equipment and personnel to the scene of the emergency with the proper operating instructions. 1 Mutual Aid Agreement City of Yakima/West Benton Regional Fire Authority ORIGINAL d. In the event the needed equipment and personnel are not available to respond, immediately advise the requesting party of such fact. 3. Command Responsibility at Emergency Scene. The Chief Officer or Senior Officer of the party to which the response is made shall be in command of the operations under which the equipment and personnel sent be the responding party shall serve; provided, that the responding equipment and personnel shall be under the immediate supervision of the officer in charge of the responding apparatus. 4. Termination of Service. The equipment and personnel of the responding party shall be released from service and returned to the responding district or municipality by the commanding officer in charge of the operations as soon as conditions may warrant or in the event of an emergency in the responding district or municipalities' area. 5. Liability. Each party agrees to assume responsibility for all liabilities that occur or arise in any way out of the performance of this Agreement by its personnel only, and to save and hold the other party, its employees and officials, harmless from all costs, expenses, losses and damages, including cost of defense, incurred as a result of any acts or omissions of the parties employees relating to the performance of this Agreement. 6. Insurance. Each party agrees to maintain adequate insurance coverage for its own equipment and personnel. 7. Compensation. Each party agrees that it will not seek compensation for services rendered under this Agreement from the other party but reserve the right to bill the insurance carrier of the property owner if needed. 8. Pre -Emergency Planning. The commanding officers of the parties shall, from time to time, mutually establish pre -emergency plans which shall indicate the types of and locations of potential problem areas where emergency assistance may be needed, the type of equipment that should be dispatched under the circumstances. Such plans shall take into consideration and insure the proper protection by the responding party of its own geographical area. 9. Non -Exclusive Agreement. The parties to this Agreement shall not be precluded from entering into similar agreements or first response agreements with other municipal corporations 10. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by either party giving to the other party of a thirty (30) day notice of termination in writing. 2. Mutual Aid Agreement City of Yakima/West Benton Regional Fire Authority ORIGINAL. WHEREFORE, this agreement is executed and effective this �� odaY of Stine,, , 20 i96 , being the date of execution of the last party to sign. City of Yakima 129 N 2nd Street Yakima, WA 98901 Xl./ f\ '/:9� (( 5 Cliff Moore, City Manager Date CITY CONTRACT NO: 2019)-110 RESOLUTION NO' r\ JCL West Benton Regional Fire Authority 1200 Grant Ave Prosser, WA 99350 X fl, / 6///�r Richard Clizbe airman / Date Att Co 9" /g Johnson, Fire Chief Date 3 Mutual Aid Agreement City of Yakima/West Benton Regional Fire Authority