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-3- 2. Each of the parties hereto agrees to respond to an emergency in the other agreeing municipal corporations, on the call from the Mayor, Director of Public Safety, Chief of. Fire or other party designated by them, of such other contracting municipal corporations, for services of the Fire Department and its emergency equipment at those times and places that would tend to require immediate or long-term participation of services of two (2) or more of the municipal corporations being a party to this agreement. The extent of such response by said responding municipal corporation shall be determined by the judgment of the Mayor, Director of Public Safety, Chief of Fire or other party designated by them, who shall retain in said municipal corporations sufficient equipment and personnel consistent with the proper protection of said responding municipal corporations. 3. Whe~n said authorized person of any of the contracting municipal corporations calls for assistance, he shall state the specific emergency · or activity requiring participation by any of the parties hereto stated. When such assistance is requested,the aut'horized person requesting such assistance shall give explicit directions as to the location where such assistance is required, and shall, whenever possible, dispatch someone to a specific meeting place to escort the persons responding to such call to their destination. 4. No charge shall be made for the aforesaid service by either of the parties hereto, and each of said parties shall assume the expense of any loss or damage to its own equipment or apparatus which may be incurred while in the other party's municipal boundaries, or while responding to a call in accordance with or under the terms of this agreement. 5. All personnel of the responding party, while responding to a call of a calling party, shall be acting within the scope of their employ- ment by the responding party, while en route to, en route from, and while acting within the territory of the calling municipality.