Fire district leaders in Port Angeles and Sequim have agreed to a plan that sees three agencies automatically respond to and/or back each other up during a structure fire.
The move for an Automatic Aid Operational Plan started at a June meeting between Clallam County Fire District 2, District 3, and Port Angeles Fire District leaders and elected officials where they agreed to work with PenCom, Clallam County’s 9-1-1 center, to better collaborate fire/EMS response depending on location.
In December, fire chiefs met to finalize the operational plan, according to Fire District 3 interim chief Dan Orr.
“Before, everything was by request to a fire,” he said. “The hope is now it saves time and gets more units in a general direction sooner.”
Previously, a responding agency would have to call for mutual aid.