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	Mutual Aid Ambulance Service
		Mutual Aid has been in the forefront in, not only providing the finest emergency and non-emergency care (Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Service), but also in disaster planning and bio-terrorism readiness.
		Mutual Aid is very involved in meeting the communities' needs for training.
		Mutual Aid is designated as a training institute with the Department of health.
	www.mutual-aid.com (204 words)

	Kropokin on Mutual Aid- Review by Paul Mattick 1956
		Mutual aid is, of course, the best way for survival for those species whose survival depends on mutual aid, as competition.
		Although it is good to know that there is just as much, or more, mutual aid as competition in nature and society, this is not enough to make men change their ways and to alter social relationships.
		For those who create the profits it may be nice to know that the mutual aid practised in their own circles attests to their high ethical concepts and natural behavior, but it does not stop their exploitation.
	www.marxists.org /archive/mattick-paul/1956/kropotkin.htm (761 words)

	EMS Mutual Aid
		Regional EMS Councils are encouraged to coordinate the development of agency and/or county mutual aid plans and the Councils have the authority to approve an EMS service operating beyond its primary operating territory for purposes of fulfilling the provisions of a mutual aid agreement (PHL3010.1.b).
		Mutual aid plans must insure that any request is made with the intent of having the closest [ usually means the unit with the shortest response time to the patient] available EMS unit respond to a patient's medical need, at the time the resources of the requesting service are temporarily unavailable or have been expended.
		Mutual aid plans for multiple patients are usually developed and coordinated at a county level to insure an adequate response as well as to provide coverage of all affected areas.
	www.health.state.ny.us /nysdoh/ems/policy/mut_aid.htm (821 words)

	Mutual Aid
		Two examples of mutual aid in an extreme form in Mennonite history are the Hutterites with their practice of Christian communism (from 1528 on) and the short lived Plockhoy cooperative colony on the Delaware in colonial America (1662 ff.).
		Another interesting illustration of mutual aid among the Russian Mennonite villages was the practice of assisting a widow at the death of her husband.
		Mutual aid developments of the mid-20th century included the burial aid society, the hospital and medical aid society, the automobile accident insurance plan, and the loan aid plan.
	www.gameo.org /encyclopedia/contents/M88ME.html (5003 words)

	Mutual aid may expand - The Boston Globe
		Communities that adopt the provision for mutual aid agree that they will consider requests for aid from other cities and towns whose resources have become overwhelmed, but they need provide aid only when they are able.
		Perry said he is in favor of mutual aid, and he believes the spirit of cooperation is already evident among health officials in Region 5.
		Cathleen Drinan, health agent in Halifax and another supporter of mutual aid, said the article has been included on the annual Town Meeting warrant in May, but she acknowledges that it could be a tough sell because of the provision that the sending town pay the expenses and incur the liability.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/03/23/mutual_aid_may_expand (1103 words)

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		Mutual aid is met with even amidst the lowest animals, and we must be prepared to learn some day, from the students of microscopical pond-life, facts of unconscious mutual support, even from the life of micro-organisms.
		Mutual aid is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle, and that law will become still more apparent when we have analyzed some other associations of birds and those of the mammalia.
		A few hints as to the importance of the law of mutual aid for the evolution of the animal kingdom have already been given in the preceding pages; but their purport will still better appear when, after having given a few more illustrations, we shall be enabled presently to draw therefrom our conclusions.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/kropotkin/mutaid.txt (14637 words)

	From Mutual Aid to Welfare State: How Fraternal Societies Fought Poverty and Taught Character
		Mutual aid was one of the cornerstones of social welfare in the United States until the early 20th century.
		Nevertheless, a reinvigoration of mutual aid (though not necessarily through fraternal societies) is not out of the question in the 21st century.
		The shift from mutual aid and self-help to the welfare state was not just a simple bookkeeping transfer of service provisions from one set of institutions to another.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/hl677.cfm (2907 words)

	Mutual aid Information
		In emergency services, mutual aid is a formal agreement among emergency responders to lend assistance across jurisdictional boundaries when required; either by an emergency that exceeds local resources or a disaster.
		In political economy, mutual aid is a term which describes a principle central to libertarian socialism or anarchism, and is used to signify the economic concept of voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.
		Mutualism was a fundamental concept in the invention of labor insurance systems and thus trade unions, and has been also used in cooperatives.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Mutual_aid (357 words)

	Anarchism In Action: Mutual Aid Projects
		Mutual Aid Projects can take many forms; from a parent organized child-minding cooperative, to a community kitchen, to a "free bin" at the local community center, to a community health insurance fund.
		Mutual Aid Societies are typically clubs or associations that are created for the purpose of providing social and economic services and insurance for their membership through mutual aid (as opposed to capitalist enterprise or reliance on the government).
		The idea of mutual aid societies dates back to the middle ages, but the still existing examples of mutual aid societies were born in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	aia.mahost.org /pro_mutualaid.html (381 words)

	Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
		The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress.
		The mutual protection which is obtained in this case, the possibility of attaining old age and of accumulating experience, the higher intellectual development, and the further growth of sociable habits, secure the maintenance of the species, its extension, and its further progressive evolution.
		In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support not mutual struggle -- has had the leading part.
	www.appropriate-economics.org /ebooks/mutualaid/conc.htm (1036 words)

	MUTUTAL AID (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mutual Aid in general is used in different areas of government, some all the time and some only during disasters.
		There are automatic aid agreements, generally in fire services, where one jurisdiction agrees to respond automatically to a certain area with specified equipment in return for the other jurisdiction agreeing to respond to another area in return.
		An example of long term aid would be fire units being sent to a large fire that goes on for many days, or police officers being sent to the area of a disaster for days or weeks such as occurred in Santa Cruz during the ‘89 quake.
	www.ci.pacifica.ca.us /POLICE/art_mutualaid.htm (479 words)

	MEUW - Emergency Mutual Aid
		Mutual aid agreements are a critical step toward planning for the unexpected.
		Due to recent Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requirements to have written mutual aid agreements on file, MEUW members in need of emergency assistance should consider contacting those Municipal Electric Utilities, Rural Electric Cooperatives and/or private utilities who have signed the APPA/NRECA mutual aid agreement.
		Wisconsin RECs Who Have Signed the APPA/NRECA Mutual Aid Agreement
	www.meuw.org /mutualaid.htm (111 words)

	First Responders: Mutual Aid Agreements
		While mutual cooperation and mutual aid agreements have existed over the years in support of civil defense, fire, and National Guard activities, this is the first time that the federal government has directly supported the establishment of mutual aid agreements with federal resources.
		As an established mechanism for sharing or pooling limited resources to augment existing capabilities and supplementing jurisdictions that have exhausted existing resources due to disaster, mutual aid processes will help ensure that jurisdictions across the United States can benefit from each other’s efforts to enhance their first response capabilities.
		Through joint planning, clear communication, comprehensive coordination, mutual aid at all levels and increased information sharing, America's first responders can be trained and equipped to save lives in the event of a terrorist attack.
	www.whitehouse.gov /homeland/firstresponders/mutualaidagreements.html (981 words)

	Office of the Fire Commissioner \| Operations \| Mutual Aid System
		Mutual Aid is activated when the fire or emergency is beyond the capability of the responding fire department, or there are more fire calls or emergencies than the local fire department can respond to.
		Each Mutual Aid District has a coordinator who is responsible for the smooth and orderly response or equipment from one town or municipality to another.
		Mutual Aid calls are on a no-charge basis; but calls, which fall under a fire protection agreement, are subject to the terms and conditions of that agreement.
	www.firecomm.gov.mb.ca /operations_services_mutualaid.html (800 words)

	ETT Fire: Automatic vs. Mutual Aid
		Automatic aid is assistance that is dispatched automatically by a contractual agreement between two fire departments, communities or fire districts.
		Mutual aid is assistance that is dispatched, upon request, by the responding fire department.
		Mutual aid should also be defined by a signed contractual agreement.
	www.ettfire.com /automatic_aid.html (564 words)

	Radio@Firehouse.com » A National FIRE Mutual Aid System
		There are emergency responses where a mutual aid department has a station closer than the department whose area the response is in but the mutual aid departments aren’t dispatched.
		A National FIRE Mutual Aid System (not a federal system or a emergency management system) administered by FIRE personnel using FIRE resouces using models already in place in Florida and Illinois as a guide is needed and it will work.
		Mutual Aid Systems throughout the country have proved to be extremely effective in mitigating emergencies larger than the subject jurisditction is capable of handling.
	dynamic.firehouse.com /broadcast/2005/09/21/a-national-fire-mutual-aid-system (7100 words)

	Mutual Aid Plan
		Mutual aid companies may be utilized by the requesting jurisdiction at the scene to control the incident, or staged as an emergency resource near the incident, but should be released once mop-up operations begin.
		Mutual aid resources are sent directly to the requesting agency with minimum delay.
		All mutual aid to or from outside the County is directed through County Communications to the County Fire Coordinator.
	www.sccfd.org /MAP_main.html (1162 words)

	Mutual Aid Concerns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fire department mutual aid agreements typically have a clause that "waives all claims and causes of action against all of the other parties to the agreement for compensation, damages, personal injury or death occurring as a consequence, direct or indirect, of the performance of the agreement."
		The second issue is that mutual aid agreements have a clause that states that they will not seek reimbursement from the requesting agency.
		Departments providing mutual aid want to be reimbursed for their expenses whenever possible but don’t want the requesting agency to fund that reimbursement under the theory that any of us could be on the receiving end and a major incident could bankrupt a jurisdiction if there is no other source of funding.
	www.coloradofirechiefs.org /legislative/mutualaid.htm (369 words)

	Malatesta - Mutual Aid
		If an individual or group have the power to impose their preference on others, they will choose the solution which best suits the* interests and tastes, the others will have to submit and sacrifice their wishes.
		But if no one has the possibility of obliging others to act against their will then, always assuming that it is not possible or considered convenient to adopt more than one solution, one must arrive by mutual concessions at an agreement which best suits everyone and least offends individual interests, tastes and wishes.
		And human collectivizes advance or decay, live or die, depending on whether solidarity and love, or hatred and struggle, predominate in the community's affairs; indeed, the very existence of any community would not be possible if the social feelings, which I would call the good passions, were not stronger than the bad.
	www.efn.org /~danr/mal_maid.html (976 words)

	Mutual Aid
		A: Mutual Aid is a coordinated agreement among electric utilities stating they may be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide personnel, equipment and material assistance during emergencies.
		A: Yes, mutual aid is an expense incurred by GRU and, as a cost to serve utility, can be passed along to our customers within the cost of doing business.
		However, to keep restoration costs low, GRU only requests mutual aid as needed rather than request it as a storm is approaching thereby incurring expenses as the crews wait to go into action.
	www.gru.com /stormcentral/mutualAid.jsp (293 words)

	What is Mutual Aid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mutual Aid is the fuel an anarchist society will run on.
		Mutual aid is a vital factor in determining who is the fittest.
		For example the current bin tax campaign will be won or lost depending on the degree of mutual aid given by people.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/wsm/ws/2003/ws77/mutualaid.html (730 words)

	Freemasonry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aiding in the westward progress was the expansion of the rail system in America.
		Other founding members of the Knights of Labor likewise had strong connections with Freemasonry and various mutual aid societies: "Cofounders Roberrt Keen and Robert Macauley belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Knights of Pythias, respectively.
		Unions have fulfilled the need of working people to render mutual aid to make the workplace safer, reduce hours, secure fair wages for work, and to level a playing field that was always stacked against them.
	mill-valley.freemasonry.biz /mutual-aid-through-collective-bargaining.htm (3795 words)

	The Avalon Project : Anglo-American Mutual Aid Agreement : February 28, 1942
		Anglo-American Mutual Aid Agreement : February 28, 1942
		And whereas the President of the United States of America has determined, pursuant to the Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, that the defense of the United Kingdom against aggression is vital to the defense of the United States of America;
		And whereas the United States of America has extended and is continuing to extend to the United Kingdom aid in resisting aggression;
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/wwii/angam42.htm (284 words)

	HFD: Mutual Aid
		In 1997, the HFD responded to 14 requests for mutual aid, ranging from ambulance runs when the city departments were tied up with other emergencies, to commercial structure fires, to range fires threatening local homes and businesses.
		The Department of Energy encourages participation in mutual aid agreements as a benefit to the site, as responses to these incidents help members of the fire department improve their skills during actual emergencies and is reciprocal in nature.
		Participation in mutual aid also helps offset some of the cost of the fire department, as the expense of responding to the incident can often be recovered.
	www.hanford.gov /fire/about/mutual.htm (397 words)

	MutualAid eXchange
		For generations, mutual aid has been an important part of living the faith for Anabaptist communities.
		We want to implement the concept of mutual aid ourselves by providing our members the opportunity to practice Jesus' teaching to love your neighbor as yourself.
		Mutual aid to care for you, insurance to protect you.
	www.mutualaidexchange.com /mutualaid.asp (345 words)

	Mutual Aid
		An organized system for fire departments to provide mutual aid and communicate with each other in times of need has been established, and this is called the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS).
		In addition to Mutual Aid, which is implemented during multiple incidents or incidents of a large scale, the Highland Park Fire Department also participates in Automatic Aid with all surrounding fire departments.
		Automatic Aid provides for the closest units to immediately respond to reported fires regardless of jurisdictional boundaries, thus providing the quickest response of manpower and equipment to incidents, and allowing more of the community to remain protected at all times.
	www.cityhpil.com /fire/mutual_aid.html (483 words)

	Peter Kropotkin - Mutual Aid
		It is a book on the law of Mutual Aid, viewed at as one of the chief factors of evolution--not on all factors of evolution and their respective values; and this first book had to be written, before the latter could become possible.
		Mutual Aid a law of Nature and chief factor of progressive evolution.
		Each of such "bird-mountains" is a living illustration of mutual aid, as well as of the infinite variety of characters, individual and specific, resulting from social life.
	www.gwiep.net /library/Kropotkin_-_Mutual_Aid.html (15094 words)

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