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Commissioners discuss mutual-aid wording after fire chiefs press for clearer incident-command language
Summary
Linn County commissioners and Lane County fire officials debated changes to mutual-aid agreements to clarify who commands an incident when county firefighters are on scene; staff will take the draft to city chiefs for local tailoring.
Linn County commissioners and Lane County fire officials asked staff to revise draft mutual-aid agreements to make clearer who has incident command when county and city departments respond to the same fire.
The change matters because county firefighters sometimes arrive in greater numbers than local volunteer crews. Randy Hagewald, Lane County Rural Fire and Emergency Management, told the board he read the draft and found the current language…
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