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RESOLUTION NO. J'-t �� <br /> AN RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR <br /> PARTICIPATION IN THE MUTUAL AID BOX ALARM SYSTEM <br /> (MAGAS MASTER AGREEMENT 2022) <br /> WHEREAS,the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System(MAGAS)was organized beginning <br /> in 1968 in the northwest and western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois to coordinate and <br /> automate fire department mutual aid, based roughly on the Chicago Fire Department's <br /> box alarm system of predetermined resources assigned to respond to a specific incident <br /> or area. Since 1968, MABAS has grown into a multi-state organization to coordinate <br /> responses to fires, emergency medical calls, hazardous material, technical rescue and <br /> other emergencies and disasters through prearranged mutual aid and dispatch <br /> agreements. The system is designed to facilitate all levels of mutual aid from day-today <br /> automatic aid responses to major incidents and disasters requiring significant deployment <br /> of resources.MABAS member Units include the gambit from all-volunteer fire departments <br /> to major cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis; and <br /> WHEREAS, since the last revision of the master MABAS intergovernmental <br /> agreement in about 1988, MABAS has grown exponentially to its current composition of <br /> almost 1200 Illinois Units and 2200 total Units in Illinois and several adjoining States; and <br /> WHEREAS, it is the express intent of member Units that the MABAS Agreement <br /> be in a form which can be adopted by Units in different States where Units may lawfully <br /> enter into agreements providing for their mutual aid and protection. Thus, even if the <br /> MABAS Agreement does not specifically cite the applicable current legal authority for a <br /> particular State and its member Units, the lack of such citation shall not be construed in <br /> any manner as an impediment to or prohibition of Units from other States from joining <br /> 1 <br />