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Mutual Aid Resources include the personnel and equipment available
to Auburn from nearby communities in return for the same favor from
Auburn Fire.
The Auburn Fire Department offers specialized resources to neighboring
communities: Remote scene lighting and breathing air refill, aerial
ladder truck, thermal imaging camera, gator and forestry-2 tanker. We
respond with additional trucks and personnel to help our neighbors during
larger incidents.
Equipment and specially trained personnel are likewise available to
Auburn including dive team, med-flight helicopter, hazardous materials
response team, heights rescue team, confined space rescue team, and
more. Some are available from nearby fire departments, others from private
organizations.
Fire chiefs work with each other to pre-plan mutual aid. New equipment
is purchased with compatibility to nearby departments in mind. Fire
dispatch centers know what resources are available from towns and private
organizations.
There is an extensive plan to provide "backfill" coverage
when local resources are dispatched away: Derry Fire will automatically
respond to a fire call in Auburn while Auburn Fire is away helping the
Manchester Fire Department. Auburn was one of 55 departments that responded
to the Malden
Mills fire in 1995, while backfill coverage was in turn provided
to many of the responding departments in accordance with prearranged
plans.
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