Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department becomes a signatory to the Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement for the first time 

PUBLIC INFORMATION RELEASE:

June 19, 2024

MEDIA CONTACT:

Lieutenant Jim Roberts

850-391-6905

LTRoberts@mpvfd.org 

Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department becomes a signatory to the Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement for the first time.

Mount Pleasant, FL – The Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department has become a signatory to the Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement for the first time in the 56-year history of the Department. As a signatory to this agreement, it provides our department with a mechanism to provide aid and support during large scale and disaster type incidents anywhere in the State of Florida, if we are able to do so. It also allows our department to request and receive aid and support from other departments during these times should there be a need for such aid and support.

Lieutenant Jim Roberts said, “The chances of our department being deployed to a large disaster outside of Gadsden County is relatively small, but it is not zero and by participating and signing the agreement it gives us a chance to assist if we can.” Lieutenant Roberts went on the say “The Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement provides all participants with a standardized way to make requests for aid, accept requests for aid, and seek reimbursement for providing aid and this process is the same for every participating agency.”

The Florida Division of Emergency Management has responsibilities for the oversight, coordination, and implementation of mutual aid activities within the state to include the Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement.

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About the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department

An ISO Class 6 Department, the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department is one of eleven departments in Gadsden County, Florida.

Founded in 1968, the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department is a small rural all volunteer fire department that strives to provide the highest quality of fire and rescue services to the citizens and visitors of our community. Department personnel are made up of dedicated community volunteers that are on standby twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week to keep the residents and visitors of Mount Pleasant and Gadsden County safe.