Mutual Assistance
The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, gives fire services the power to assist other fire services or fire authorities in what is known as mutual assistance.
The fire services that adjoin Cornwall are as follows:
- Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
- Newquay Cornwall Airport Fire and Rescue Service
Read more about this topic: Cornwall Fire And Rescue Service
Famous quotes containing the words mutual and/or assistance:
“What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors—in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Holding myself the humblest of all whose names were before the convention, I feel in especial need of the assistance of all.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)