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Lino Lakes, Minnesota – Fire Department Analysis Page 19 <br /> <br />up and cover the cities while resources are committed to the call. Such systems use an automatic box <br />alarm or pre-designated set of fire apparatus to design a predetermined response of up to seven alarms for <br />use by dispatch personnel to get the resources on the way quickly and efficiently. Box alarm systems are <br />becoming a best practice for collaboration with other departments. <br /> <br />Table 2, on the following page, shows the box alarm system used by Chanhassen Fire Department, <br />cooperating with over a dozen neighboring jurisdictions to address their individual and shared needs. <br />Some of the responses are automatic aid and some are mutual aid. The bottom line is that this system <br />provides enough resources to an incident to safely resolve the incident, while reserve resources provide <br />backup so that each participant is covered for additional calls. The Chanhassen area is much more <br />densely populated and has many large industrial risks, so this example is larger than that needed by Lino <br />Lakes, but the process is similar. <br /> <br /> <br />25