“They stop the fire at a certain point and then they go on to stop it somewhere else,” he said. We actually work under our state contract when we do this type of thing.”īedont said that most of the work the fire fighters from this area did was mop up in areas where flare ups occurred after the main blaze had passed. This compact makes it easy to ship resources back and forth when needed. “It is billed through the state so that individual departments do not have to deal with it. “The pact is set up so that all the costs of the responding agencies are covered,” said Bedont. An memorandum of understanding exists with the state of Utah that covers all the local agencies that join in on an operation. The Emergency Mutual Aid Compact says when another state needs help, those in the agreement will respond with whatever they can to aid in the emergency. The fire departments and other agencies that went to California are involved in a reciprocal pact that is in place between Utah and other states, including California. From our area was Justin Needles, Jeremy Jorgensen and myself. Those on that team were mostly central and eastern Utah fire fighters. “Price Fire was part of the Central Utah Strike team.
“There were engines from the northern to the southern part of Utah there,” said Price Fire Chief Paul Bedont a few days after he and others returned from the operations there. While most of those involved in the endeavor were from the large northern Utah fire departments, and they were the ones that got the press coverage, a number of personnel from other places in Utah were on the lines. For the middle two weeks of December, fire fighters from Utah were fighting blazes in California.
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