Title 9 Part 205

Organized, supervised, coordinated, cooperative, reciprocal assistance in which personnel, equipment and physical facilities of fire departments, regardless of type or size, are utilized for fire or other public emergency in which the services of firemen would be used throughout the State of New York and contiguous areas.

The New York State fire mobilization and mutual aid plan is hereby established to provide for the mobilization of manpower and equipment of fire departments:

The organization of the Division of Safety for activation of the plan is depicted on the diagram on the following page.

The plan is an aggregation of county fire mutual aid plans when admitted by the bureau of fire mobilization and control.

A “zone” as used in the statutes is a “county” as determined by the State Constitution. Those counties comprising the City of New York are constituted as a single zone.

The authority and responsibility of the regional fire administrator are suspended until the State fire mobilization and mutual aid plan is activated. When this plan is activated, the authority and responsibility of the regional fire administrator are instituted. When this plan is deactivated, the authority and responsibility of the regional fire administrator are suspended.