互助：记住任务

作者Brian P. Kazmierzak

当我旅行该国时，我对存在的一些令人敬畏的互助系统感到惊讶。缺乏系统，或者至少缺乏使用系统的意愿，我也感到惊讶。最近，佛罗里达州的助理负责人refused to send a tanker to another department由于资金纠纷的仇恨。这难以置信。曾经有消防员在一个场景中需要，他拒绝发送帮助吗？我听我自己区域中的扫描仪，每天我都会听到靠近训练的训练有素的奔跑训练的消防队，出于多种原因，无论是长期存在的争执，个性冲突还是阻止一项避免的合同消防部门从召集互助，直到首先使用其下班成员中的所有资源和呼叫。我坐下来想知道……整个消防部门何时会学会呼叫相互援助，或者更好的是，自动援助 - 不是关于我们或我们的脆弱的自我，而是我们为史密斯太太提供的服务。这也是消防员安全问题。当我们有消防员打电话给市议会议员回应机器人时，这真是可悲，因为他们的钻机要离开其所在地区来应对起火。很抱歉，但是如果您抱怨要做工作或去工作以帮助您的兄弟姐妹消防员，您已经失去了为什么您加入消防服务的重点！

There are some model systems that exist across the United States that truly provide excellent service for Mrs. Smith. One example is the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS,www.mabas.org) that was developed in Illinois in the late 1960s and has now spread across the Midwest. Then there are systems that exists in the Indianapolis (IN) and Phoenix (AZ) metro areas. For the sake of this article we will refer to that system as the “border drop” system, where similar type and staffed resources respond to emergencies across borders on the initial dispatch, automatic aid. In this system, it doesn’t matter the color of the fire truck or the name on the door. Units respond together and work together seamlessly each day on every type of incident, fromEMS无论边界如何，都会奔向结构性火灾。没有草皮战或合同阻止它。在汉密尔顿县（俄亥俄州）地区，有东北火灾合作（NEFC），该协作位于Loveland-Symmes消防局。该系统每天提供自动援助，但也将其培训部门纳入系统以及正式的政策和程序。NEFC是其他部门遵循的真正模型。它甚至允许多个调度中心在其中心以外的正常日常运营中派遣公司。可以了解他们的系统www.nefcfire.com.

It baffles me when I hear companies from farther away, sometimes even with less staffing, responding to incidents rather than the closest similarly staffed company. Why would we bypass firehouses in this day and age? Just think about what we know about modern fire behavior, intervention time for cardiac arrests, intervention time for a patient potentially bleeding out, etc. I realize there is a difference between automatic aid, mutual aid, and, as Billy Goldfeder puts it, MOOCHING Aid. There are times when departments abuse the mutual aid system to fix a staffing problem or funding issues, etc. But when you have departments that have stations closer to borders and have the same staffing and training, why not use those resources? If we can get on scene quicker and have the same training and equipment, we all should be working together in this day in age for the good of Mrs. Smith.

If we are going to do “border drop” or closest, most-appropriate unit mutual aid, several items need to be in place. The first of those would be standard policies covering such topics as incident command, Mayday, fireground accountability, and radio interoperability. We have to be able to work together seamlessly. Without training, the seamless integration will not occur. Your training divisions need to have as much buy-in as your operations division into this aid system, and joint, multi-company训练must be established to get everyone on the same page. Additionally, everyone needs to respect the officers they will be working for on scenes. I know of a horror story where a career firefighter on a mutual aid run filed a grievance because he was given an order by a volunteer chief. We have to have buy-in from all levels for this to happen, but in the end everyone needs to put the egos away and remember: we are all working together regardless of borders for the good of Mrs. Smith.

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Brian P. Kazmierzak, EFO, CTOis the division chief of training for the Penn Twp. Fire Dept. in Mishawaka, Indiana. He has a bachelor’s degree in fire service administration from Southern Illinois University and serves as the director of operations forwww.firefighterclosecalls.com和网站管理员www.modernfirebehavior.com. Brian was the recipient of the 2006 F.O.O.L.S. International Dana Hannon Instructor of the Year Award, the 2008 Indiana Fire Chiefs Training Officer of the Year Award Recipient, and the2011年国际消防服务教练学会（ISFSI）/188金宝搏是正规吗乔治·D·邮政年度消防教练. In addition, Brian completed the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program in 2006. He is a CPSE credentialed Chief Training Officer, serves as a Director at Large for theISFSI，并且在UL FSRI PPV研究小组中。