Mutual aid running card for Boston.

[grumpy grizzly]

In Boston there is automatic mutual aid covering assignments above the fifth alarm. Fifth; Brookline engine to E-28, Cambridge E-2 to 33, Quincy Engine 4 to 18. Ladders Quincy L-5 to E-20 and Brookline L-2 to L-14. 6th; Needham 1 to 30, Newton1 to 51, Somerville 2 to 32, no ladders. 7th; Chelsea 2 to 9, Dedham 1 to 48, Winthrop 1 to 56, Cambridge L-1 to L-15. 8th Everett1 to 8, Milton 1 to 16 and Watertown 1 to 37. no ladders. Ninth, and highest alarm Malden 3 to 10, Revere 3 to 5, and Waltham 1 to 41. These are some long relocations such as Waltham and Watertown. Any inaccuracies please advise, hope you enjoy.

 

[Extra One & One]

Boston is part of the Metro Fire Mutual Aid System. There are 36 towns & cities in the system. They work on a 1/3 rule. This means that departments providing mutual aid can be requested to send 1/3 of their resources and no backfilling occurs. So if a city has 9 engines and 3 ladders, in theory, they can send 3 engines & 1 ladder out of town. The advantage to this is that you don't strip any town/city and they can cover their own responses. So the only out-of-town apparatus covering fire stations occurs in the city/town that has the fire. There are some long runs for covering companies, but they are further down on the alarms (all towns/cities have 10 Alarm runcards).

Some cities/towns will have the covering companies respond to the next higher alarm throughout the runcard. Other cities/towns may have the covering companies respond to the next higher alarm through the 4th or 5th alarm, and then after that all responding apparatus to the scene is from out of town and the covering companies remain covering.

Here's a link: https://www.massmetrofire.org/depts.html
Call up a couple runcards and compare them. Note: If a piece is listed to the scene and has parenthesis around it, that means it comes from coverage. Example: If Boston sends an engine to Milton for coverage on a 2nd Alarm, that will be listed in the coverage column: BOS. If it goes to a 3rd alarm and they go to the scene it will be in parenthesis: (BOS).

 

[skiLB]

Boston is part of the Metro Fire Mutual Aid System. There are 36 towns & cities in the system. They work on a 1/3 rule. This means that departments providing mutual aid can be requested to send 1/3 of their resources and no backfilling occurs. So if a city has 9 engines and 3 ladders, in theory, they can send 3 engines & 1 ladder out of town. The advantage to this is that you don't strip any town/city and they can cover their own responses. So the only out-of-town apparatus covering fire stations occurs in the city/town that has the fire. There are some long runs for covering companies, but they are further down on the alarms (all towns/cities have 10 Alarm runcards).

Some cities/towns will have the covering companies respond to the next higher alarm throughout the runcard. Other cities/towns may have the covering companies respond to the next higher alarm through the 4th or 5th alarm, and then after that all responding apparatus to the scene is from out of town and the covering companies remain covering.

Here's a link: https://www.massmetrofire.org/depts.html
Call up a couple runcards and compare them. Note: If a piece is listed to the scene and has parenthesis around it, that means it comes from coverage. Example: If Boston sends an engine to Milton for coverage on a 2nd Alarm, that will be listed in the coverage column: BOS. If it goes to a 3rd alarm and they go to the scene it will be in parenthesis: (BOS).

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