The Chief of the Fire Department of this village, with the approval of the President, is authorized on behalf of this village to enter into, and from time to time alter and amend, an agreement with any or all of the municipalities in the mutual aid area defining and putting into effect a mutual fire aid program providing generally as follows:
(A) In the event that, in the judgement of the officer in charge of the fire department of a stricken municipality, the available fire equipment and personnel of that municipality is inadequate to effectively cope with an emergency, fire or other disaster therein, such officer may call on a neighboring participating municipality to furnish fire equipment and personnel, to the extent specified in the agreement, to the stricken municipality, for use either in assisting at an emergency, or in combating a fire or other disaster, or as a standby reserve to meet other calls that may occur before the local fire equipment is free to take care of them.
(B) Each aiding municipality furnishing fire equipment and personnel to a stricken municipality shall have the right to call on another participating municipality, for fire equipment and personnel, to the extent specified in the agreement, as a standby reserve to take the place, in part, of the equipment and personnel furnished to the stricken municipality until such equipment and personnel shall be returned.
(C) On receipt of a call under division (A) or (B) of this section the aiding municipality called upon shall, to the extent provided in the agreement, furnish the equipment and personnel called for by the stricken municipality, or by the aiding municipality; except, that each aiding municipality may always be permitted to retain sufficient fire equipment and personnel to fight any fire or to meet any emergency within its own boundaries that may reasonably be anticipated.
(`95 Code, § 95.42) (Ord. 65-1, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 73-5, passed - - )