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~ RESOLUTION ENTERING INTO AGREemENT FOR MUTUAL AID, WITH FIRE FIGHTING EQUIt~ENT,
WITH THE COUNTY OF SAN.' 'MATE0 AND THE FIRE DISTRICTS.
RESOLVED by the city council of the city of South San Francisco that said city
enter into au agreement for mutual aid, with fire fighting equipment, with the County
of San Mateo and the fire districts and the cities named as follows: Bayshore Ft~e
District, Brisbane Fire District, Colma Fire District, Lomita Park Fire District,
Millbrae Fire District, Belmont Fire District~ Menlo PArk Fire Distirct, Woodside
Fire Distirct, Half Moon Bay Fire Distirct, City of Daly City, City of San Bruno,
City of Burlingame, City of San Mateo, Town of Hillsboro~gh, City of San Carlos, and
City of Redwood City.
The Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized and directed to execute
s~ch agreement, in behalf of said city of South San Francisco.
I hereby cext~y that the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced and
adopted by the city council of t~e city of South San Francisco this 1st day of June~
1942, by the following vote:
Ayes, Councilmen V. Boido, Geo. W. Holston, D. W. Ratto, M. Minucciani, Reese Lloyd
Noes, Councilmen None ~
Absent, Councilmen None
(Seal)
Attest:
Daniel McSweeney
City Clerk
AGRE~J~ NT FOR MUTUAL AID
(between communities within the same county, covering fire equipment. ) See Deering's
Gen. Laws, Act 1801; also Secs. 13080-4 of H & SC)
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 1st day of June, 1942, by and bet-
ween the County of San Mateo, State of California, and the following cities, public
corporations, public districts and public agencies therein:
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, a national emergency and a state of war exists throughout the United
States of America, as a result of which the people of the entire United States are
called upon to marshal all their man power and material resources to insure a spsedy
and complete victory; and
~tEREAS, the San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Area has been declared to be in a
mmmbat zone; and
VfHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of California has established the State
Council of Defense and has authorized t~e establishment of city councils of defense
and county councils of defense and has provided that all political subdivisions and
public corporations and agencies shall cooperate in the civilian defense program; and
WH~EAS, the resources of any one of the parties hereto may be insufficient to
cope with a disaster resulting from enemy action or other cause, and it is therefore
desirable and for the mutual benefit of all the parties hereto that the resources of
all of said parties in excess of necessary reserves be made available to anyone of
said parties stricken by disaster; and
WHEREAS, with that objective in view, the fire-fighting services of the State
have approved the California Fire Disaster Plan providing for mutual aid between
con~nunities;
NOW THEREFORE, for the purpose of implementing said Plan, and pursuant to
the provisions of Chapter 383 of the Statutes of l~21, as amended, Sections
13080 to 13054, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code, Chapter 323 of the
Statutes of 19~l, and Chapter i of the Statutes of the First Extraordinary
Legislative Session of 19&l-19&2, it is mutually u~ierstood and agreed as
follows:
1. That in the event that any one or more of the parties hereto is
stricken by disaster of suchmagnitude that its or their fire-fighting equip-
ment is inadequate to cope with such disaster, fha parties hereto not so
stricken will furnish to such stricekn party or parties such available mutual
aid fire-fighting equipment Cas said term is defined in paragraph 2 herein)'
as may be needed to enable such stricken party or parties to cope with such
disaster, provided, however, that if at the time a call for mutual aid is made
any party shall have any part of its mutual fire fighting equipment engaged
in fire-fighting ®q~me~-e~a~e~-&~ or out of service for any reason, the
amount available mutual aid fire-fighting equipment shall be reduced by the
amount of fi~e-fightlng equipment .that is so engaged or out of sez~ice;
2. For the purpose of this agreement the fire-fighting equipment of
each of the parties hereto shall be classified as follows:
The first thirty percent (3C~0) thereof shall constitute available mutual
fire-fight ing equipment;
The remaining seventy percent (?0~/o) thereof shall constitute an operating
reserve;
Except that for the purpose of this agreement the following areas should
be considered as single units;
1. Daly City, ~:olma, Bayshore, Brisbane, South Sam Francisco, San Bruno,
Lomita Park, Millbrae;
2. Half I~oon Bay, Moss Beach, Sharp Park, County Fire Department at
Pescadero;
And in those areas the first one-third (1/3) of the total fire-fighting
equipment in the district shall constitute available mutual aid for fire-fight-
ing equipment and the remaining two-thirds C2/3) shall constitue an operating
reservee
3. None of the parties hereto shall call for mutual aid hereunder dur-
ing any emergency until it has dispatched all of the fire-fighting equipment
owned by it, or until in the judgment of its fire chief the situation is such
that there is imminent danger of its' fire-fighting operative reserve being
exhausted. None of the parties hereto shall be obligated hereunder to
dispatch any of its own operating reserve fire-fighting equipment.
4. Calls for mutual aid between parties thereto shall be ~w~a~de to the
county control, and such mutual aid as is necessary shall be dispatched as
directed by the county fire Coordinator. Wheneve~ any call for mutual
aid is made the information concerning the situation shall be transmitted
in accordance with the State Fire Disaster Plan to the property state
coordinators.
5. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, whenever~ any
party hereto has furnished fire-fighting equipment hereunder and thereafter
finds it necessary to dispatch any part of its operating reserve fire-
fighting equipment, it shall be entitled to request and receive hereunder
mutual aid, or to recall so much of the equipment theretofore f~rnished by
it hereunder, as is necessary to replace such operating reserve.
6. In t~e event any of the parties hereto is, in the Judgment of the
fire chief of such party, in such imminent danger that it would endanger the
public safety to dispatch any fire-fighting equipment beyond its bcnndaries,
then such party shall not be obligated to dispatch any fire-fighting equip-
ment hereunder.
7. Each party hereto shall use reasonable diligence to bring its own
fire-fighting equipment up to the minimum peacetime standards and requirements
established for said party by the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
8~ This agreement shall be deemed supplementary to the California Fire
Disaster Plan, which is hereby adopted and approved, and if any conflict shall
be found to exist between any of the provisions of this agreement and said
-~,.~u~o vx ~x'~j~A~e~.e equm~'t '~at ~ se e~agea or out cf sex. ice;
2. For the purpose of this agreement the fire-fighting equipment of
each of the parties hereto shall be classified as follows:
The first thirty percent (30%) thereof shall constitute available mutual
fire-fight ing equipment;
The remaining seventy percent (70~/o) thereof shall constitute an operating
reserve;
Except that for the purpose of this agreement the following areas should
be considered as single units;
1. Daly City, Colma, Bayshore, Brisbane, South Sam Francisco, San Bruno,
Lomita Park, Millbrae;
2. Half Moon Bay, Moss Beach, Sharp Park, County Fire Department at
Pe s c ade ro;
And in those areas the first one-third (1/3) of the total fire-fighting
equipment in the district shall constitute available mutual aid for fire-fight-
lng equipment and the remaining two-thirds (2/3) shall constitue an operating
3. None of the parties hereto shall call for mutual aid hereunder dur-
ing any emergency until it has dispatched all of the fire-fighting equipment
owned by it, or until in the judgment of its fire chief the situation is such
that there is imminent danger of its~ fire-fighting operative reserve being
exhausted. None of the parties hereto shall be obligated hereunder to
dispatch any of its own operating reserve fire-fighting equipment.
4. Calls for mutual aid between parties thereto shall be made to the
county control, and such mutual aid as is necessary shall be dispatched as
directed by the county fire Coordinator. Whenever any call for mutual
aid is made the information concerning the situation shall be transmitted
in accordance with the State Fire Disaster Plan to the property state
coordinators.
5. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, whenever.~any
party hereto has furnished fire-fighting equipment hereunder and thereafter
finds it necessary to dispatch any part of its operating reserve fire-
fighting equipment, it shall be entitled to request and receive hereunder
mutual aid, or to recall so much of the equipment theretofore furnished by
it hereunder, as is necessary to replace such operating reserve.
6. In the event any of the parties hereto is, in the judgment of the
fire chief of such party, in such imminent danger that it would endanger the
public safety to dispatch any fire-fighting equipment beyond its boundaries,
then such party shall not be obligated to dispatch any fire-fighting equip-
ment hereunder.
7. Each party hereto shall use reasonable diligence to bring its own
fire-fighting equipment up to the minimum peacetime standards and requirements
establiShed for said party by the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
8. This agreement shall be deemed supplementary to the California Fire
Disaster Plan, which is hereby adopted and approved, and if any conflict shall
be found to exist between any of the provisions of this agreement and said
Plan, the terms of the California Fire Disaster Plan shall control and be
followed.
9. This agreement shall continue in force, unless sooner terminated,
until the conclusion of the existing state of war; provided, however, that
any or all of the parties hereto may withdraw from this agreement and ter-
minate the same by giving fifteen days' notice in writing of its or their
election so me to do, to tD_e remaining parties hereto.
IN V~ITNESS NHEREOF, the parties hereto have ~hereunto .caused theirAre-
spective corporate names to be signed and their respective corporate seals to
be affixed by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and by the respective
mayors of the respective cities, and by the ~ommissioners of the respective
districts and other public agencies, all of whom are respectively thereunto
duly authorized, the day and year first hereinaBove written.
Bayshore Fire District
Lomita Park Fire District Menlo Park Fire District
Brisbane Fire District
By
Millbrae Fire District
By
Woodside Fire District
By ~ By
Colma Fire District Belmont Fire District
By By
by
Half Moon Bay Fire DiSt.
By
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City of ~uth San Francisco
By
City of ~)aly ~City
By
City of San Bz~Luo
By
City of Burlingame
By
County of San Mateo
By
City of San Mateo
By
Town of Hillsborough
By
City of San Carlos
By
City of Redwood City
By