Cherokee County commissioners have updated and renewed an automatic aid agreement with Dawson County for fire and emergency services.
The original agreement dates to 2015, and the new document updates the original to include additional streets served in the event of structure fires, according to a staff report to commissioners. The Dawson Board of Commissioners approved the agreement on Nov. 7.
The aim is to ensure residential properties in either county are within five highway miles of a first-response fire station, according to the agreement.
Among the provisions of the agreement, Cherokee and Dawson each will have one engine and one chief officer automatically dispatched to structure fires and alarms in the automatic aid areas of each others’ counties. Radio communications, staging areas, incident commanders and joint exercises conducted semi-annually also are addressed.
Neither agency will seek compensation from the other for services rendered, the document says.
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