COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
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Interlocal agreement for Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services Automatic Aid and Closest Unit Response in Southeast Volusia.
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DEPARTMENT:
Fire Rescue
SUMMARY:
This is an Interlocal Agreement for Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services Automatic Aid and Closest Unit Response between the Cities of City of Daytona Beach Shores, City of New Smyrna Beach, City of Port Orange, City of South Daytona, and Town of Ponce Inlet.
The City of Edgewater, City of Daytona Beach Shores, City of New Smyrna Beach, Town of Ponce Inlet, City of Port Orange, and City of South Daytona have a long-standing history of cooperation in providing emergency services to residents in the Southeast Volusia County community. The purpose of this Interlocal Agreement is to provide for the continuation of the Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services Automatic Aid and Closest Unit Response System established under the Prior Agreement, as well as identify other areas of cooperative efforts that would further enhance emergency services in Southeast Volusia County. Some examples covered by this agreement is allowing are cross-utilization of command staff for emergency incident management, cross-utilization administrative staff to coordinate and provide fire and EMS training, cross-utilization support staff to provide IT and other technical support, cross-utilization of fire inspection and fire investigation resources, coordination of EMS and fire equipment purchasing to ensure maximum purchasing power, coordination of fire resource deployment within Southeast Volusia County to ensure maximum geographical coverage during periods of high call volume, collaborative strategic planning for the future placement of apparatuses to maximize flexibility of available resources, coordination of training activities to achieve maximum participation to deduce overtime, coordination in the development of emergency operational guidelines to maximize the effectivene...
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