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Home My WebLink About20100517 - VI-14HASTINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT MICHAEL T. SCHUTT, FIRE & EMS DIRECTOR 115 West 5" Street Hastings, MN 55033 -1815 Business Office (651) 480 -6150 Fax (651) 480 -6170 TO: Honorable Mayor Hicks and City Council Members FROM: Michael T. Schutt, Fire and EMS Director DATE: May 13, 2010 SUBJECT: Update Mutual Aid Agreement (Ambulance) Description: The City of Hastings maintains several mutual aid agreements with our neighboring communities for emergency services. Mutual aid is important for the allowance of depth within our current service as well as planning for major events. Cannon Falls Ambulance Service is requesting to update our current Mutual aid agreement. Background: The City of Hastings has maintained a mutual aid agreement with Cannon Falls Ambulance Service for over 30 years. Over the years, each agency has assisted the other in trues of need. Aside from adding a definition section, the agreement is similar to our current agreement. Budget /Financial Impact: As with our other mutual aid agreements, each agency is responsible for its own staff, liability, and billing for services. There are no costs associated with entering into mutual aid agreements. Requested Action: I am recommending the City of Hastings maintain its mutual aid agreement with the Cannon Falls Ambulance Service. If you have any questions, please feel flee to contact me at 651- 775 -5547 anytime. FIRE SUPPRESSION — FIRE EDUCATION — FIRE PREVENTION — AMBULANCE SERVICE CANNON FALLS AMBULANCE 1 918 River Road ► Cannon Falls, MN 55009 Ph: (507) 263 -7027 ► Fax: (507) 263 -2634 AMBULANCE SERVICE MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT, authorized by Min entered into, by and between the CITY OF DEPARTMENT EMS. iesota Statute 144E.101, subdivision 12, is CANNON FALLS and HASTINGS FIRE The parties agree as follows: I. PURPOSE. The purpose of this Agreement is to set forth the terms and conditions for the City of Cannon Falls Ambulance Service and the Hastings Fire Department EMS, both licensed life support transportation services in the State of Minnesota, to provide each other with mutual assistance and back -up ambulance services. This Agreement is intended to authorize both parties to send its equipment and personnel into the other's jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be read in conjunction with, and shall not invalidate , any other mutual aid or cooperative agreements. IL DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings given below: 1. " Ambulance Service" means providing trained ambulance staff, equipment and properly equipped vehicles. 2. "Assistance" means the performance of ambulance and related services, including, but not limited to, the triage, treatment and transfer of those needing medical care. 3. "Emergency" means a sudden and unforeseen situation requiring immediate action. 4. "Jurisdiction" means the primary service area of an ambulance service provider. 5. "Requesting party" means the ambulance service requesting assistance. 6. "Responding party" means the ambulance service providing the assistance requested. III. TERMS OF MUTUAL ASSISTANCE 1. Guideline for Assistance. Both parties agree to provide Assistance according mutually agreeable guidelines. 2. Control of personnel and equipment. The Requesting Party shall be in command and control of the ambulances(s) and attendants dispatched pursuant to this agreement when the Requesting ambulance(s) and attendants are located at the Emergency scene. At all other times, the ambulance(s) and attendants shall remain under the command and control of the Responding Party. 3. Availability of Assistance. The Responding Party will provide Assistance only when such Assistance will not conflict with a need for Ambulance Services in the Responding Party's own jurisdiction. The decision of whether Assistance is available under this Agreement is at the sole discretion of the Responding Party. The decision by the Responding Party regarding availability is final. 4. Requests for Assistance. The Requesting Party will request Assistance only when it cannot respond to an Emergency appropriately. 5. Both ambulance services shall agree to handle their own patient billings and collections for any services provided while providing mutual aid. Neither ambulance shall be responsible for any debt due the other for services provided under this agreement. IV. LIABILITY. No other party to this Agreement, nor any officer or employee of any party, shall be liable to any other parry or person on account of failure to furnish life support transportation in response to a call for assistance. Response is at the sole discretion of the Responding Party. V. RESPONSIBILITY FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE; WAIVER. Each party shall be responsible for its own personnel, equipment and for injuries or death related to any such personnel, or damage to any such equipment, except that unused equipment provided by the Responding Party shall be returned to the Responding Party by the Requesting Party when circumstances permit this to be done. Responding personnel shall be deemed to be performing their regular duties for the Responding Party. Insurance coverage and financial compensation shall be the responsibility of the Responding Party. Each party waives the right to sue any other party for any worker's compensation benefits paid to its employee or volunteer, even if the injuries were caused wholly, or partially, by the negligence of any other party, its officers, employees or volunteers. VI. INDEMNIFICATION. The Requesting Parry agrees to indemnify and defend the Responding Party against any claims brought, or actions filed, against the Responding Party or any officers, employees or volunteers of the Responding Parry for the injury or death to any third person, or persons, or damage to property of third persons, arising out of the performance and provision of Assistance in responding to a request for Assistance by the Requesting Parry pursuant to this Agreement. This indemnification requirement imposes on the Requesting Party a limited duty to defend and indemnify the Responding Party for for claims arising within the Requesting Party's jurisdiction, subject to the liability limits under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 466. The purpose of creating these reciprocal duties to defend and indemnify is to simplify the defense of liability claims against multiple defendants from a single occurrence to be defended by a single attorney. Under no circumstances, however, shall a party be required to pay on behalf of itself and other parties, any amounts in excess of the liability limits established in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 466, applicable to only one (1) party. The limits of liability for some, or all parties, may not be added together to increase the maximum statutory limits for any party. VII. EFFECTIVE DATE. This agreement shall become effective upon execution by both parties, which shall indicate that the necessary resolution has been adopted by the governing body of the executing party. VIII. TERMINATION. If either service wishes to terminate this Mutual Aid Agreement, the other party must be notified, in writing, sixty (60) days in advance. We, the undersigned, agree to abide by the terms of this Mutual Aid Agreement. CITY OF CANNON FALLS Minnesota Ambulance License Number: 0044 and 1885 TITLE: TITLE: I: TITLE: HASTINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT EMS Minnesota Ambulance License Number: 0101 mu TITLE: C TITLE: Dated: 1 2010 Dated: , 2010 TITLE: