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16 Mutual Fire Aid Associations in New Hampshire

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Why do we need this plan?

• Control Large Scale Events/Disasters

• Conflagrations• Wild land/Urban Interface• Terrorism/WMD• Local/Regional Resources

Exhausted/Eliminated• A Plan to Effectively

Manage the Unthinkable• Inter & Intra State

• Salem/Malden Mills (28-7-14)

• Francestown –Wild Land Urban Interface

• No. Stratford/RR Station Incident

• Londonderry/Tire Fire

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Organized Deployment of Skilled Resources to Significant Events

• A Significant Event can easily deplete your resources

• Task Forces and Strike Teams can provide the resources you need to cope with seriously deteriorating situations in a structured and organized fashion

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What’s in it for me?

• A Significant Event Could Occur in Your Community

• A Duty to Share Your Special Skills

• A Massive Mobilization in time of dire need

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Malden Mills ConflagrationMethuen, MA

Massive mutual aid was sent to the scene from neighboring towns, towns in New Hampshire and from towns as far away as the southern suburbs of Boston. In all, it was reported that 200 firefighters battled the blaze with 67 engine companies and 22 truck companies. Steve Macko, (c) Emergency Response & Research Institute, 1995.

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Overview

• Concept of Operations• Participating Mutual

Aid Systems• Task Force/Strike

Team Types/Standards• Communications Flow• Dispatch/Command &

Security Procedures• Project Status

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Multiple Community Fire Resources are Activated According to the NH Statewide Fire Mobilization Plan for Response

to a Significant Event, in or out of State

Fire Resources are Assembled into a Task Force or Strike Team at an Assembly Area designated by the Team Commander

The Team Responds as a Convoy to the Incident Destination

The Task Force/Strike Team Operates to best advantage at the Destination Emergency Scene

The Task Force/Strike Team is Demobilized

NH Statewide Fire Mobilization PlanConcept of Operations: Flow Chart

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Administrative Framework

• Each Mutual Aid Association Determines Their Own Task Force/Strike Team Participants, Following State Standards

• Commanders, Companies, Regional Dispatch Centers are Designated Locally

• Systems Management & Coordination is Provided By The Federation

• Legal: RSA 154, 227L, Title 3 – Chapter 53A

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13 of 16 Mutual Aid Districts are Viable Participants

• Border Area• Capital Area• Interstate Emergency

Unit• Kearsage• Lakes Region• Mt. Washington

Valley• North Pac• Ossipee

• Seacoast• Souhegan• Southwest• Twin State• Upper Valley• Community• Connecticut Valley• Tri-Town