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5 <br /> Medical Responder expenses attributable to the services rendered within the District. <br /> This does not preclude mutual aid agreements. <br /> 7. The Fire Department shall provide Medical Responder Services within the District. <br /> Medical Responder Services are defined as the provision of Basic Life Support <br /> treatment as needed until such time as more highly trained personnel arrive on <br /> scene. Such Medical Responder Services may be provided through mutual aid <br /> agreements or through third party contracts <br /> 8. The Fire Department shall provide Hazardous Materials Response Services <br /> according to the North Carolina Department of Insurance North Carolina Fire Rescue <br /> Commission Haz-Mat 1 Responder level for all operational responses in the district. <br /> Hazardous Materials Response Services are defined as defensive actions necessary <br /> to protect life, property and the environment from the effects of the release. <br /> 9. The Fire Department shall provide Rescue Services to all persons and individuals <br /> within the District. Rescue Services are defined as the removal, extrication, or freeing <br /> of individuals from vehicle confinement or danger. Currently the fire department is <br /> certified through the Rescue Association in Agriculture Rescue, Heavy Rescue, High <br /> Angle Rescue, Confined Space Rescue, Swift Water Rescue and by December 1, <br /> 2010 Structural Collapse Rescue and Trench Collapse Rescue. Fire Department <br /> shall maintain current rescue certifications through the Rescue Association. Such <br /> Rescue Services may be provided through mutual aid agreements or through third <br /> party contracts. <br /> 10. Notwithstanding Section 6 above Fire Department may provide fire protection <br /> services outside the District subject to the following terms and conditions: <br /> A. That Fire Department is authorized to extend their primary insurance fire <br /> protection services in surrounding fire insurance districts to better serve the <br /> citizens by eliminating a class 10 area in the neighboring fire district. The fire <br /> department shall provide a notarized agreement between the fire <br /> departments submitted to the fire marshal for processing to the Board of <br /> County Commissioners. <br /> B. Fire Department shall not expend any funds or resources appropriated for the <br /> use of persons and individuals in the Central Orange Fire District for the <br /> primary fire protection services outside the area of surrounding response <br /> districts. In the event any such expenditure occurs for primary fire protection <br /> outside of their insurance response to a neighboring district, the Fire <br /> Department shall immediately notify the County and Fire Department shall <br /> take corrective measures to rectify the expenditure and to ensure such <br /> expenditure shall not be repeated. This does not preclude fire departments in <br /> the county to expend funds toward a fire district in this county for the creation <br /> and use of a joint facility to be utilized for training in fire, rescue and other <br /> emergency services. <br /> 11. That Fire Department shall enter into an agreement with surrounding Departments in <br /> which the Fire Department provides compensation to those surrounding <br /> 2 <br />