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I guess once ca.emergency hasn't been formed yet we can use ca.news. 

Last weekend I involved in a rescue at Grizzly Creek in the Feather River
Canyon close on the Butte/Plumas county line.  Well after we had been up
the creek for about a half an hour or so, I guess that Plumas Co. Search &
Rescue (I'm a volunteer firefighter in Butte Co., by the way) either
showed up or had just been notified that a rescue was in process in Plumas
Co. (I don't know when they arrived, I was up the creek), any way they
were bent out of shape over this and I guess it was an oversite on the
part of our dispatch not to notify them (as it was, a member of Plumas S&R
had taken command of the incident because he showed up after teaching a
class at Butte College.)  A week earlier we had a traffic collision at the
same location (3 car T/C, 2 of which burned, 1 major injury, 5 minor), we
arrived at scene at basicly the same time as an ambulence and rescue from
Quincy (at this particular location, we should have arrived 30 to 45
minutes before anything from Quincy.)  Both problems seem to be a problem
of recognition of responce areas, I imagine this is a common problem
though out the state, but I feel the problem with Plumas S&R can be
remedied easy enough by the responding units (or the dispatch center) from 
Butte Co. remembering to get S&R notified, but I feel getting the folks
from the Plumas to call down to Butte would be more difficult, once the
two counties don't have a mutual aid agreement with each other.

So what I wondering is how does the mutual aid system though OES work, I
understand that any emergency agency can ask for mutual aid through OES, 
but is there direct mutual aid aggreements as well, like automatic aid
(anybody out there that can give a good definition of each?)



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