(A) Upon the permission of the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees or the Fire Chief, or pursuant to any agreement with a rural fire district for mutual aid protection, such fire equipment of the village as may be designated by the Board of Trustees as rural equipment may be used beyond the corporate limits to extinguish reported fires.
(B) The firefighters of the village shall be considered as acting in the performance and within the scope of their duties in fighting fire or saving property or life outside the corporate limits of the village when directed to do so by the Board of Trustees or the Fire Chief, or some person authorized to act for the Chief, and in so doing, may take such fire equipment of the village as may be designated by the Board of Trustees.