Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mutual Aid Agreements

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Unit 2 Discussion: Mutual Aid Agreements 1. Select a “role” from the graph above. Fire Department 2. Research and define the duties and responsibilities of the selected role. The duties and responsibilities of the fire department are most importantly responding to fires and other emergencies that involve the assistance from the department such as vehicle accidents, flooding, emergency rescue, and first aid response. When it comes to a fire departments duties and responsibilities when it comes to mutual aid agreements it is to coordinate planning, multiply the response resources available to any one jurisdiction, ensure timely arrival of aid, arrange for specialized resources, and minimize administrative conflict and litigation post-response. …show more content…

It benefits the departments by allowing them to work together and provide new ideas or tips that may help response times or other potential issues. Each department can share resources such as equipment, tool, or vehicles in case one department may be short a certain vehicle or tool that may be needed or required to provide assistance, the other department will be allowed to share those resources to help. Some disadvantages of a mutual aid agreement would be each department might not use the same communication equipment or other needed tools to do the job, so that could pose issues when responding to emergencies. Terminology can also be an issue between departments, one department may use a code or word that may mean something totally different than what they use it for. So it is good to make sure there are no flaws in the communication that could be misunderstood. Each department might have different protocols when responding to an emergency, so the training and response should be compatible with each other to prevent

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