Tag Archives: mutual aid

The New York Supreme Court for Dutchess County has ruled that a fire department that requests aid from a neighboring community is responsible to compensate that assisting department for damage that occurs to their apparatus, even though the apparatus has been released from the incident, and even though the damage was solely the result of negligence by its driver.

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The father of an Air National Guard firefighter who died while fighting a structure fire off-base, has filed suit against the local fire department, the local fire chief and the state of West Virginia. Senior Airman Logan Young died while battling a barn fire in Berkeley County December 27, 2020

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A volunteer fire department in Illinois is being sued over a fatal fire where firefighters were allegedly slow to respond and the department did not request mutual aid from a career fire department that was actually closer to the scene. The Village of Bartonsville is being sued by the estate of a four-year-old child who died in a house fire on July 17, 2018.

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Today’s burning question: I am a fire chief. A neighboring volunteer fire department announced its new slate of officers for 2018.   In this department the current fire chief either stays in office or names his own successor. In this case ...

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The Austin Fire Department is being sued by the Austin Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 975, over automatic (mutual) aid agreements that the city recently entered into that call for the closest units to an incident to respond. IAFF Local 975 ...

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A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the City of Lockport, New York alleging that the delay of a mutual aid ambulance contributed to the death of an alderman’s mother. Jeanette A. Lombardi, 75, died on September 20, 2012 ...

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