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MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT FOR THE USE OF FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT BETWEEN MUNICIPALITIES IN ANOKA COUNTY THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into this day of , 2014, by and between the municipalities that have adopted a resolution as provided for in Section IX herein and have become signatories to this agreement or counterparts to this agreement. WHEREAS, the municipalities that have entered into this agreement desire to make available to each other its respective fire service equipment and personnel to assist other parties to this agreement when it has been determined that a municipality does not have sufficient personnel and/or equipment to control or extinguish a fire or to deal with an emergency situation. THEREFORE, it is mutually stipulated and agreed to as follows: I. PARTIES TO AGREEMENT Any municipality within Anoka County with a fire department or that contracts with a private fire department is eligible to be a party to this agreement by adopting a resolution as provided for in Section IX herein and becoming a signatory to this agreement. A municipality or private fire department that becomes a party to this agreement is hereinafter referred to as municipality or collectively municipalities. II. PURPOSE Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, the municipalities have agreed to provide mutual aid to each other in cases where the designated official has determined that the municipality has insufficient personnel and/or equipment to control or extinguish a fire or fires or to deal with an emergency situation. III. DESIGNATED OFFICIAL Pursuant to Minn. Stat. 12.27, subd. 3, the undersigned municipality hereby designates its fire chief, or designee of the fire chief, as the officer who may dispatch equipment and personnel as considered necessary to deal with fire, hazard, casualty or other similar occurrence outside the municipality and by its suddenness would be impractical for the governing body itself to authorize the dispatch. IV. METHOD a. If in the judgment of the designated official the municipality has insufficient fire personnel and/or equipment to deal with a fire, hazard, casualty or other similar occurrence, an emergency shall exist for the purpose of this agreement, and the designated official may call upon the fire department of any party to this agreement for assistance. b. Upon receipt of a call for assistance, the responding designated officer shall promptly dispatch at least one fire service apparatus with the usual number of personnel to assist with the emergency or to render stand-by service as the case may be; provided however, that no municipality shall be obligated to send its fire service equipment or personnel beyond its boundaries if, in the judgment of the municipality's designated officer, to do so would leave the