Arizona Mutual Aid: A Retrospective

Arizona Mutual Aid History• Arizona Mutual Aid Compact – 2008• AZ Emergency Management Master Mutual Aid

Agreement – 2004• Arizona Fire Service Mutual Aid Plan - 2003• Emergency Management Assistance Compact

(EMAC) – July 2000• Southwest Caucus Supplement to ICD&DC – 1992• Governor’s Executive Order 76-2 re: Interstate Civil

Defense & Disaster Compact - 1953

Types of Mutual Aid

• Ad-Hoc – assistance requested when emergency occurs. • Automatic Aid/Cooperative Agreements – local mutual aid (usually fire

resources), between districts, cities, tribes, and even counties.• AZWARN – Arizona Water and Wastewater Alert and Response Network is

resource specific mutual aid (city, district, tribe, county and state).• AZMAC – Arizona Mutual Aid Compact is an comprehensive agreement

between the state, political sub-divisions and tribes. • REMAC - Regional mutual aid compacts such as the Southwest Caucus

Supplement to the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact • EMAC - Emergency Management Assistance Compact is a state to state

compact.• Private Sector – although not a signatory to AZMAC or AZMAC, they do

play a part in mutual assistance.

AZMAC represents a linkage from the smallest jurisdictions to the state and ultimately the federal government.

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AZMACPurpose … to state for the participating Parties, the terms and procedures for the

execution of Arizona political subdivisions’ and Tribal government’s full power to provide mutual aid in times of emergencies to any affected area in accordance

with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency plans or agreements. Review ARS 26-309 and 26-311.

We all agree to play by the same rules.

ScopeThe Scope of this Compact is to (1) provide the procedures to notify the Providing Parties of the need for assistance; (2) to identify available resources and (3) to provide a mechanism for compensation for resources.

AZMAC(1) Notification Procedures• A Requesting Party, which needs assistance in excess of its

own resources … is authorized to request assistance from any party to this Compact.

• Requesting jurisdiction shall consider the geographical proximity of jurisdictions providing assistance.

• Requests should specify what the emergency is, what resource is needed and the estimated duration of the assistance, if known.

AZMAC(2) to identify available resources• …Providing Party shall make reasonable efforts to assist the

Requesting Party. …• Providing Party shall render such mutual aid as it is able to

provide consistent with its own service needs at the time. • …Providing Party shall be the sole judge of what mutual aid it

has available to furnish. Providing party decides what it can do.

AZMAC(3) to provide a mechanism for compensation for resources.• If the Providing Party desires reimbursement. (They may not)• …Requesting party shall reimburse the Providing Party for all

costs…• …whether an incident has been declared an emergency or

not.However,• When mutual aid is extended under this Compact to the

State…• …reimbursement…pursuant to… ARS § 35-192, and AAC Title

8, R8-2-312…

AZMACPersonnel Compensation and Insurance• The Requesting Party and the Responding Party shall be responsible for all compensation and

insurance coverage of their respective employees and equipmentImmunity • The parties shall have such immunity as provided by state law. Review ARS 26-314.Indemnification• To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold

harmless the other party and the other party’s officers, agents, and employees from all claims, losses, and causes of actions arising out of, resulting from, or in any manner connected with this agreement, but only to the extent such claim, loss, cause of action, damage or injury is caused or contributed to by the negligent acts or omissions of the indemnifying party.

Review ARS 26-314.

How is AZMAC used?

• Virtually any resource can be requested under AZMAC.

• Fire and rescue apparatus, law enforcement, public works, emergency management, supplies, services, etc.

• Examples of past use: Law enforcement personnel during the Wallow Fire Public works equipment during winter storm 2010 Medical Examiner's office services during the Yarnell Hill Fire

2014 Update Highlights

• Verbiage more conducive for School District participation• Allows the agreement to be utilized for exercising of adopted

emergency plans

Will further reduce risk while improve financial recovery in situations that we will likely help each other anyhow……..

AZMAC can be used by state to request local resources for deployment on EMAC assignment out of state.

Introduction to EMAC

EMAC: The Cornerstone of Mutual Aid

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What is EMAC

EMAC is an interstate mutual aid agreementthat provides resources across states lines in theevent of an emergency or disaster.

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Resource Request Process

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Response occurs using all available resources and automatic aid. Once responders exhausts local availability, requests roll up to the county.

SEOC Resource Request

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Once a county exhausts its available resources they may request assistance from the SEOC.

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Agency Tasking

After a request is received by the ADEM OPS Order Desk, the request is routed for resolution.

Do we have emergencies?

Do we have emergencies?