MASSACHUSETTS FIRE DISTRICT 7

 

Deputy Chief Thomas Nault, Auburn
(508) 832-7800
Chairman

Chief Roger Belhumeur, Auburn, Ret.
(508) 832-7800
Treasurer

 

Chief Jeffery Wilson, Oxford
(508) 987-6012
Vice – Chairman

Chief Donald Gonynor, Douglas
(508) 476-2267
Secretary

 

              Voted / Approved: June 26, 2003 monthly meeting- Oxford

PROTOCOL FOR STRIKE TEAM REQUEST & RESPONSE

1. The Community requesting the Strike Team will do so after their normal mutual aid plan has been utilized, unless the incident type / size requires an immediate response of a Strike Team
   
2. The community requesting the Strike team is responsible for designating the staging area and providing directions to the staging area or fire location.  Whenever possible, the requesting community will have a fire department office / official waiting for the Strike Team to arrive on scene.  That fire department official will appraise the Strike Team Commander of the incident scope and will transmit a message to the Incident Commander that the Strike Team Commander is on scene.
   
3. The responding communities are responsible for knowing what equipment or alternate equipment to send for each type of Strike Team. All available apparatus listed on the Strike Team Run Card shall be sent upon request, unless that unit is out of service at the time of the call.  In the event that apparatus is not available at the time of the call, the responding community shall, whenever possible, fill in with apparatus of the same type.  If alternate apparatus is not available, the community shall notify the Control Point dispatcher, who will contact the communities on that particular Strike Team to see if they can fill in with the appropriate apparatus.  If those communities cannot fill in with the appropriate apparatus, the Control Point Dispatcher shall contact another community, not on the Strike Team, to see if they can fill in for the assigned apparatus.
   
4 Communication between responding Strike Team units should be kept to a minimum on 33.62 MHz. The Strike Team Commander, or Alternate Commander, may designate a different frequency for inter- team communication enroute to the fire or staging area.
   
   
  MEMBER TOWNS: Auburn-Blackstone-Brookfield-Charlton-Douglas-Dudley-East Brookfield-Grafton-Leicester-Mendon-Millbury-Millville- Northbridge North Brookfield-Oxford-Paxton-Southbridge-Spencer-Sturbridge-Sutton-Upton-Uxbridge- Warren-West Brookfield-Webster-Worcester.  Associate members: Hopedale - Shrewsbury