Mutual Aid definition

Mutual Aid means emergency interagency assistance provided

Mutual Aid means a homeland security activity, as defined by Government Code 421.001, performed under the system or a written mutual aid agreement.

Mutual Aid means a plan established pursuant to section 7 of the Fire Protection and Prevention Act under which fire departments that serve a designated area agree to assist each other on a reciprocal basis in the event of a major fire or emergency.

Examples of Mutual Aid in a sentence

• Mutual aid is the initial attack response by both Department and Forest Service suppression resources that are identified in each Party’s Emergency Command Center's run cards or computerized automated dispatch system (CAD).

• Mutual aid, contractual and other non-curtailment supply management tools, Operational Flow Orders, interruption of contractually-interruptible load, and supply acquisition shall be utilized before a curtailment is declared.

• Mutual aid emergency or emergency does not include a situation that initially raises to the level of disaster or emergency requiring a local or state of declaration of emergency or disaster, unless that declaration occurs after the initial request for mutual aid.

• Mutual aid and assistance shall not be requested unless the resources available within the stricken area are deemed inadequate by Recipient.

• Mutual aid emergency" or "emergency" means an occurrence or condition resulting in a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or the environment, where the governing body having jurisdiction over the situation decides that the situation exceeds its ability to render appropriate aid and that it is in the public's best interest to request mutual aid from a governmental jurisdiction or private entity in another state with which the governing body has a written mutual aid agreement.

More Definitions of Mutual Aid

Mutual Aid means the provision of personnel and/or equipment from an Responding Party to a Requesting Party to aid the Requesting Party with respect to fire protection and other emergency services.

Mutual Aid means an agreement, preferably in writing, between two or more services that addresses how and under what circumstances each service will respond to a request for assistance in situations that exhaust available resources.

Mutual Aid means a homeland security activity, as defined by Government Code 421.001, performed under the system or a writ- ten mutual aid agreement. Gov’t Code 418.004(11)

Mutual Aid means a program to provide/receive assistance in the case of a major emergency in a municipality, community or area where resources in a municipality, community or area have been depleted, but does not include Automatic Aid;

Mutual Aid means a homeland security activity, as defined by Section 421.001, performed under the system or a written mutual aid agreement.

Mutual Aid means a formal written agreement between two or more EMS organizations to assist in emergency medical coverage in the other's usual area of coverage, including having access to dangerous drugs during the emergency.

Mutual Aid means an agreement among ambulance services to assist one another across jurisdictional boundaries.