HFD negotiating automatic aid agreement with Porter

At the Oct. 10 Kingwood Service Association Public Safety Committee meeting, Charles Martin, district chief of emergency operations for the Houston Fire Department (HFD), announced that the department is in the process of entering into an automatic aid agreement with the Porter Fire Department. This agreement is good news for both Kingwood-area residents and those living in the Porter area.
“We met today with the Porter Fire Department to talk about things we have been talking about in-house for months. Porter Fire Department and I and the Houston Fire Department are in the process of forming an automatic aid agreement. We ironed out a lot details today and the big thing we have left to do is create our communications link and do our district mapping to know exactly where this will go on,” he said.

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