SOUTHERN MARYLAND EMERGENCY SERVICES

MUTUAL AID

MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS

• Each of the three respective counties have mutual aid agreements with each other for the purpose of sharing resources and to provide necessary support in serving our respective communities in times of need. These agreements were agreed upon after we all made this determination “from time to time emergency situations may develop at locations and at times in their respective Counties when assistance from neighboring emergency services agencies may enhance the rendering of prompt, effective and professional services to the public in order to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the public”

MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS

• What will be provided:

• The various fire suppression, emergency medical, hazardous materials and special operations incident response units of a Responding Jurisdiction will respond to a request for mutual aid when deemed appropriate by the senior official of the volunteer organization providing the service upon a determination that sufficient equipment and personnel are available to respond to the mutual aid request without adversely impacting fire suppression, emergency medical, hazardous materials and special operations response services in the Responding Jurisdiction.

• Emergency medical services may include both basic and advanced life support services/apparatus.

WHAT DOES THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES LOOK LIKE CURRENTLY AND WHAT IS THE HISTORY

OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS? …

DATA PRESENTED TODAY

• The data I am presenting today was generated from three separate Computer Aided Dispatch software programs. Each county categorizes data according to their specific needs; it is not standardized across our counties. We all do the same thing, but we have slightly different terminologies and different computer language.

• However, the data from the three counties is fairly consistent and provides a good overview of our trends.

CALVERT COUNTY STATISTICS (CHART PROVIDED BY CALVERT COUNTY DES)Mutual Aide from Charles County

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019Fire 87 117 98 116 98 88Medical 285 252 202 133 148 182Rescue 55 61 68 43 38 32Total Calls 427 430 368 292 284 302

Mutual Aide from St. Mary's County2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Fire 99 124 109 74 97 88Medical 418 506 454 457 419 428Rescue 31 42 40 51 27 24Total Calls 548 672 603 582 543 540

Mutual Aide to Charles County2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Fire 31 21 24 17 23 20Medical 13 19 20 20 17 33Total Calls 44 40 44 37 40 53

Mutual Aide to St. Mary's County2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Fire 40 44 53 108 91 70Medical - BLS 71 102 116 163 292 494Medical - ALS 1 1 11 12 6 1Rescue 1 1Total Calls 113 147 180 283 389 566

CHARLES COUNTY STATISTICS(RAW DATA PROVIDED BY CHARLES COUNTY DES)

EMS Mutual Aid provided to St. Marys County Year-to-Date Sent2017ALS 453BLS 177Misc 66total 696

2018ALS 495BLS 195Misc 50total 740

2019ALS 551BLS 204total 805Misc 50

ST MARY'S COUNTY STATISTICS2016

Mutual Aid Year-to-Date Sent Year-to-Date Received

Calvert Fire 131 97Calvert EMS 419 175Charles Fire 127 270Charles EMS 53 800Prince George Fire 3 11

Prince George EMS 0 0

2019 –Nov. 30

Mutual Aid Year-to-Date Sent Year-to-Date Received

Calvert Fire 72 103Calvert EMS 337 499Charles Fire 83 151Charles EMS 47 724Prince George Fire 2 18Prince George EMS 0 0

2017

Mutual Aid Year-to-Date Sent Year-to-Date Received

Calvert Fire 82 136Calvert EMS 427 107Charles Fire 114 203Charles EMS 34 806Prince George Fire 6 7

Prince George EMS 0 0

2018

Mutual AidYear-

to-Date Sent

Year-to-Date Received

Calvert Fire 91 125Calvert EMS 364 370Charles Fire 124 203Charles EMS 52 819Prince George Fire 3 17Prince George EMS 0 0

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

• Our three counties have a solid partnership that works exceptionally well together. That will continue for the foreseeable future, which equates into exemplary service for our communities and a redundancy in each of our Emergency Services Departments.

QUESTIONS?

Slide Number 1Mutual aid agreementsMutual Aid AgreementsWhat does the delivery of services look like currently and what is the history over the last few years? …Data presented todayCalvert County Statistics (Chart provided by Calvert County des)Charles county statistics�(raw data provided by Charles county des)St Mary's county statisticsWhat does the future hold? Questions?