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Procedures for communicating the need for ambulance services or special rescue services by the PROVIDER
shall be established and administered by the Iredell County Emergency Communications Center.
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MUTUAL AID
A. Upon notification by an appropriate requesting agency (i.e., COUNTY or other Iredell County Rescue
Squad), PROVIDER, through its Emergency Medical Services department or Rescue Squad, upon
establishment that an emergency does in fact exist and that PROVIDER's aid is needed, the Chief or
Director of Operations (hereafter also including any other officer or person delegated that authority by said
Chief or Director of Operations) shall have the implicit authority to order such available equipment and
personnel as may be required, to respond to assist the requesting agency. Procedures for communicating the
need of ambulance service or special rescue services to the PROVIDER shall be established by mutual
agreement between the parties hereto and the same shall be properly publicized. After determining that the
mutual aid request may be honored without impairing the PROVIDER's capacity to provide service within
its own jurisdiction, the Chief or his designee may take such steps as he/she deems appropriate to furnish the
requested aid. The response of the PROVIDER shall remain the sole discretion of the Chief or his designee,
and the PROVIDER shall not be compelled to dispatch any of its equipment or personnel; however, every
effort should be made to furnish requested assistance if such dispatch would not impose a serious
impairment to that PROVIDER's service plan.
B. It shall be the responsibility of the PROVIDER to assure that all personnel responding to the request for
mutual aid are trained, responsible persons. The conduct and actions of said responding personnel shall
remain the obligation and responsibility of PROVIDER. In addition, it shall be the responsibility of the
PROVIDER to assure that each piece of responding equipment is operational and capable of functioning
property for that type of equipment.
C. PROVIDER shall assume all liability and responsibility for the death of or injury'to any of its own
personnel while responding to the request for mutual aid.
D. PROVIDER shall assume all liability and responsibility for damage to, or caused by, its own equipment
while enroute to or from a mutual aid request.
E. The agency requesting mutual aid shall have no liability nor responsibility for the personal property of
PROVIDER personnel if said property is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed while those personnel are
performing their duties under the mutual aid response terms contained herein.
F. PROVIDER shall assume no liability or responsibility for property damaged or destroyed at the actual scene
of any mutual aid response due to the EMS and/or rescue operations, or other operations as may be required
or ordered; all such liability and responsibiliri shall rest solely with the requesting agency and within whose
boundaries the incident occurs.
G. PROVIDER shall assume all costs of salaries, wages, bonuses or other compensation for its own personnel
that respond to a mutual aid dispatch under the terms of this Mutual Aid Agreement, and PROVIDER shall
also assume all costs involving the use of equipment and tools used specifically in response to the request
for mutual assistance, and PROVIDER shall make no charge for such use to the agency requesting the
mutual aid assistance. However, any supplies provided by the PROVIDER from its own supply shall be
paid for by the requesting agency, upon receipt of an itemized statement of costs for such supplies.
H. The Chief Officer of the agency requesting assistance shall in all instances be in command of the emergency
as to the aspects of strategy, tactics and overall direction of the operations. All orders or directions
regarding the operations and personnel of the PROVIDER, shall be relayed to PROVIDER'S Chief Officer
present at that incident and in command of the PROVIDER.
I. I. When PROVIDER personnel are sent to another district pursuant to this Mutual Aid Agreement, the
jurisdiction, rights, authority, privileges and immunities, including coverage under Workman's
Compensation laws and malpractice insurance, which said personnel have in the PROVIDER, shall be
extended to the areas outside the normal response territorial limits, when said personnel are acting within the
scope of the authority conferred by this Mutual Aid Agreement.
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TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT
Franchisee will provide 60 days written notice should he decide to cease ambulance service operations of his own
accord.
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TERM OF AGREEMENT
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