Common use of Automatic Aid Clause in Contracts

Automatic Aid. The EMS department, fire department or district that first arrives to handle the initial response will assume Incident Command and will retain such command until relieved by an appropriate officer of the EMS department, fire department or district within whose jurisdiction the situation is located; thereafter, the appropriate relieving officer shall assume Incident Command. If the incident commander determines that there is still a need for additional assistance from the fire departments or districts of other Parties to this Agreement, the same dispatching procedure shall be used. With the exception of taking operational direction as part of incident command as provided for in this Agreement, for all other purposes the responding resources and personnel will be considered to be operating as part of the responding Party and not the Party receiving such automatic aid.