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United States — New Hampshire
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The fire department may provide aid outside the district, but only subject to the subdivision and any prescribed conditions and restrictions.
United States — New Hampshire
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An aided city, town, village, or fire district may compensate a responding municipality or fire district for employee compensation losses and may reimburse certain fire-department-related payments tied to injury or death while rendering aid.
United States — New Hampshire
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Municipalities may form a district fire mutual aid system if at least 10 municipalities have authorized outside aid, and they may ask the state fire marshal to call the organizational meeting.
United States — New Hampshire
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This provision sets out how the system is organized, including who calls the first meeting, notice requirements, delegate voting, adoption of bylaws, and election and powers of directors.
United States — New Hampshire
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A district fire mutual aid system must coordinate member fire services and cooperate with certain state and local emergency agencies. It may also plan services, buy and operate equipment, provide communications and alarm services, offer dispatch services, extend group purchasing, and run training programs. The state fi
United States — New Hampshire
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Municipalities and private fire departments may join the system, and members may withdraw by vote, but withdrawal is delayed for 90 days after written notice.
United States — New Hampshire
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The system, municipalities, and certain fire departments and personnel are not liable for failing to respond, or responding unreasonably, when extinguishing a fire.
United States — New Hampshire
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Municipalities in a system may raise and appropriate money for the system, and counties with a system may do the same; if not all county municipalities belong to the system, county appropriations need a 2/3 affirmative vote of the county convention present and voting.
United States — New Hampshire
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This section defines “private fire department” to include industrial and establishment fire organizations for self-protection and nonprofit volunteer fire associations.
United States — New Hampshire
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A district fire mutual aid system may receive, hold, and use gifts, bequests, and devises for purposes consistent with this subdivision.
United States — New Hampshire
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When requested by a chief of an organized fire department in the state, the fire marshal must help coordinate mutual-aid fire department services for fires and other emergencies.
United States — New Hampshire
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A town or city may appropriate money to help a fire department member who is disabled by accident while performing duty.
United States — New Hampshire
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If a fire department member becomes permanently disabled by an accident covered by RSA 154:31, the town or city may grant relief.
United States — New Hampshire
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A town or city may pay all or part of a deceased member’s burial expenses if the member was accidentally killed in the line of duty or dies within 60 days from accident-related injuries.
United States — New Hampshire
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This provision applies when fire department members are acting under the chief’s or another legally authorized officer’s authority and direction.
United States — New Hampshire
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Firefighters must be organized into companies, follow directions from the chief, firewards, or engineers, help protect and use public property as directed, drill as directed, and use best efforts to extinguish fires; they may also mitigate other emergencies.
United States — New Hampshire
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Appointed fire chiefs and similar officials must be qualified, may direct their departments, and can be suspended or dismissed only for cause with written reasons; they may seek a superior-court hearing within 45 days.
United States — New Hampshire
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The chief fireward, engineer, or fire chief must keep town fire apparatus and water sources in order and report their condition and repair costs to the town every year.
United States — New Hampshire
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The fire officer in charge or designee must investigate fire cause and origin and collect related evidence, subject to statutory exceptions. If a fire is determined to be suspicious or incendiary, the police officer in charge may conduct a criminal investigation, restrict scene access, secure criminal evidence, and gat
United States — New Hampshire
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For certain highway incidents, designated responders must coordinate scene safety, the fire chief or police officer in charge must seek help promptly, police may remove blocking non-emergency vehicles or cargo, responders are exempt from liability in specified circumstances, and authorized removal costs may be recovere