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Mutual Aid Among Local Entities Occurs Somewhere In Missouri On A Daily Basis 3

• Began In Early 1991 • Law Passed Allowing Mutual Aid On A Statewide Basis • 1 st Law Was For Fire Service Only 4

• Haz Mat Train Derailment • Large Cold Storage Fire • 1993 Floods 5

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• Emergency Management Assistance Compact • After 1992 • All 50 States Now Belong • NEMA Administered 7

• Credentialing Covered • Tort And Immunity Goes With Personnel • Easier Reimbursement 8

• Geared For Non-Emergency Response • Paperwork Nightmare • Lack Of Intimate Knowledge Of Requested Needs 9

• Saw Need For National Plan For Fire Service Response In A Disaster • Formed Mutual Aid Systems Task Force (MASTF) • Required Report With Recommendations In 9 Months 10

Develop a recognized, accepted and seamless process for fire response to a national disaster.

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• Work With State Chief Organizations To Provide Template • Purpose – Common Terminology – Legal Authority – Interoperability – NIMS/DHS Compliant 12

• Homeland Security Grants – For Continuing Work On MASTF – To Provide Assistance To Each State For Intrastate Mutual Aid Systems (IMAS) 13

Intrastate Mutual Aid System (IMAS) MUTUAL AID WITHIN STATES Community to Community Community to State Solve the main problem of a lack of resources: Who has what is needed Where it is & where it needs to go How to get it there quickly How supply & demand are organized/ communicated to ensure efficient use Mutual Aid System Task Force (MASTF) MUTUAL AID BETWEEN STATES State to State State to Nation 14

• National Point Of Contact • Policies For Rapid Deployment • Eligibility To Participate • Training • Linkage With Other Emergency Responders • Funding 15

• Collaboratively Written • Formal Plan • Accepted At State Level 16

Missouri Systems Concept Of Operational Planning For Emergencies 17

LAW ENFORC EMENT IST FIRE/EMS MOSCOPE PUBLIC WORKS EMA HSRS UTILITIES 18

• All Hazard • Allocation-Mobilization Deployment • All Fire Resources • To Augment Local Resources 19

• Immediate Activation • Opt Out • Systematic Typing & Approaches • Start & End Locally • Specialized Assistance • NIMS Compliant 20

• All Fire Agencies • Incident Support Teams • Hazardous Materials Teams • Homeland Security Response System Components • Missouri Task Force I • Heavy Rescue And Search & Rescue Resources 21

• Includes All Potential Responders • Opt Out • Nims Compliant • Credentialing • Governmental Function As If At Home 22

• No Department Or District Can Be Forced To Respond To Or Accept Mutual Aid • If A Department Wishes Not To Be Involved – Simply Send A Letter To Fire Marshal To That Affect 23

• Responding Agencies Must Meet Federal Laws Concerning Mutual Aid • Personnel Trained In NIMS Compliant Training – Is 100 – Is 200 – Others If Part Of Command Structure 24

• Law Requires That Local Fire Chief Insures Personnel And Equipment Responding Meet Credentialing Requirements That Are Requested – If Requesting Type I Pumper - Pumper Responding Is A Type I Pumper – Personnel Responding Meet Request (LE-FF/EMT) 25

• Any And All Responders And Equipment, For Purposes Of Insurance And Liabilities Are Covered As If They Were Responding Within Their Own Jurisdiction • Best To Check With Insurer 26

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• The Fire Chief of each local entity providing fire protection will serve as Fire Service Representative to Area Coordinators 28

LOCAL IC REGIONAL COORDINATOR AREA COORDINATOR LOCAL EOC 29

Area Coordinators Are Selected By Local Fire Service Representatives Within A Specified Area 30

STATE MUTUAL AID COORDINATOR

LOCAL IC AREA COORDINATOR REGIONAL COORDINATOR REGIONAL MACC 31

Selected By MO Assn Of Fire Chiefs In Consultation With State Fire Marshal & Area Coordinators 32

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STATE EOC

LOCAL IC AREA COORDINATOR REGIONAL COORDINATOR STATE FIRE MARSHAL

OTHER REGIONAL COORDINATORS

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• DFS Requested Funding For Position Of Mutual Aid Coordinator In Fire Marshal’s Office • State Homeland Security Saw Need And Provided Funding 36

• Identify Potential Enhancements • Assist In Ongoing Maintenance As DFS Representative To MOSCOPE • Work To Enhance – IST Teams – HSRS Teams – MERIS • Work With Other Disciplines To Include Them In MOSCOPE 37

• Coordinate Inter-regional Responses – Evaluate Conditions – Determine Resource Availability • Select Resources To Fill Request • Alert Regional Coordinators • Serve As Fire Service Representative In State EOC • Activate Specialty Resources When Requested 38

• State Fire Marshal – ESF #4 - Fire – ESF #9 - Search & Rescue • Other EOC Relationships – ESF #8 - EMS – ESF #10 - HAZ MAT 39

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The purpose of an incident support team is to complement and support the management of an incident or multiple incidents when the complexity or span of control has exceeded local entity’s capacity to effectively manage the event.

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• The MO-IST System Is Currently Comprised Of : – Two IST Teams Type 3 – One IST Team Type 4 • Future?

– One More Type 3 In Kansas City Region – Several More Type 4 42

• Local In Control • Need To Provide For Support • Ask For What You Need • Communication • Reimbursement - Document Document - Document 43

• Voluntary • Be Prepared – Scramble – Standard • Send What Requested • Protect Your Own 1 st • Document - Document - Document 44

• Contacted local area coordinator or regional coordination • Identified myself and the agency making the request • Provided two callback numbers for contact • Stated the reason for the request • Stated the type(s) and quantity of resources needed and resources already utilized • Stated when we need the resources • Stated where resources are to report • Stated other needed information for responders • Identified Radio Communications Frequency to be utilized for contact 45

• Force Account Labor Summary Record – Used to record your personnel costs.

• Force Account Equipment Summary Record – Used to record your equipment use costs.

• Material Summary Record – Used to record the supplies and materials that you take out of stock or purchase.

• Rented Equipment Summary Record – Used to record the costs of rented or leased equipment.

• Contract Work Summary Record – Used to record the costs or work that you have done by contract.

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• Make It User Friendly (Meris) • Have A Single 800 Number • Provide Central Dispatching • Take It On The Road 47

MUST PROVIDE PROPER RESPONSE FOR CITIZENS 48