Channel Industries Mutual Aid

== Profile ==
Channel Industries Mutual Aid's (CIMA) primary purpose is to respond to fire alarms and extinguish fires in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area through the mutual efforts of its members, which include various Houston Ship Channel industries and governmental entities that have the resources required to participate in such activities. CIMA is one of seven members of the Gulf Coast Industrial Mutual Aid Alliance (GCIMAA) that stretches from Corpus Christi, Texas, to southwest Louisiana.
The CIMA organization consists of 104 members from private industry, municipalities, government, and law enforcement agencies covering Harris, Chambers, and Brazoria Counties holding over 200 pieces of apparatus. Approximately 65 personnel are marine firefighting trained. CIMA specialists are trained to serve in all key positions within the Incident Command System. There are 4 geographic response zones spread across 2 counties.
==Membership==
*Advanced Aromatics
* Agrifos Fertilizer Inc.
*Air Products Corp. - La Porte
*Air Products, Inc. - Pasadena
*Akzo Nobel - Pasadena
* Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemical LLC - Deer Park
*Albemarle Corporation
*Albemarle Corporation - Bayport Plant
*American Acryl L.P.
*Arkema Inc.
*Arkema Inc. Clear Lake
*Baker Petrolite Corporation
*BASF
*BASF Corporation - Pasadena
* Braskem PP America, Inc.
*Celanese - Clear Lake
*Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
*Chevron Phillips Chemical Company - Cedar Bayou Plant
*City of Baytown
*City of Houston
*Clean Harbors Deer Park LP
*Clear Lake Chemicals LLC
*Cloverleaf Volunteer Fire Department
*Deer Park Fire Department
*Dixie Chemical Company, Inc.
*Dow Chemical - Houston Operations
*E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co.
*Equistar Chemicals - Bayport
*Equistar Chemicals - Channelview
*Ethyl Corporation
*ExxonMobil Baytown Ref./Chem. Plant
*ExxonMobil Chemicals Baytown Olefins Plant
*FMC Corporation
*GB Biosciences	
*GEO Specialty Chemicals - Deer Park
*Georgia Gulf Corporation
*Goodyear Tire & Rubber - Houston
*Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. - La Porte
*Gulf Bayport Chemicals LP
*Haldor Topsoe, Inc.
*Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Co.
*Houston Refining LP
*Ineos
*Ineos Nova LLC
*Ineos Oligomers
*Intercontinental Terminals Co.
*Invista S.a.r.l.
*Johann Halterman
*Kaneka Texas Corporation
*Kinder Morgan Liquid Terminal, LLC - Galena Park
*Kinder Morgan Liquid Terminals, LLC - Pasadena
*Kuraray America Eval
*Kuraray America Septon
*La Porte Fire Department
*LBC Houston
*LCY Elastomers LP
*Linde Gas LLC
*Linde Gas North America LLC
*Lubrizol Corp. - Bayport
*Lubrizol Corp. - Deer Park
*Lyondell Chemical - Bayport
*Lyondell Chemical - Channelview
*Lyondell La Porte Complex
*LyondellBasell Bayport Polymers
*Magellan Midstream Partners, LP
*MEMC Pasadena, Inc.
*Merisol USA LLC	
*Nisseki Chemical Texas, Inc.
*Noltex LLC
*Odfjell Terminals Inc.
*Oiltanking Houston, Inc.
*Oxy Vinyls - Houston Operations
*Pasadena Fire Department
*Pasadena Refining Systems, Inc.
*PL Propylene LLC
*Port of Houston - Barbours Cut
*Port of Houston - Bayport
*PPG Industries - La Porte
*Rhodia Inc. - Baytown
*Rhodia Inc. - Houston
*Rohm and Haas - Lone Star Plant
*Rohm and Haas Chemicals LLC - Bayport Plant
*Rohm and Haas Texas, Inc.
*Seabrook Fire Department
*Sekisui Specialty Chemicals America, LLC
*Shell-Deer Park
*Solvay Chemicals, Inc.
*Stolthaven Houston, Inc.
*Sun Products Corporation
*Targa Midstream Services LP - Galena Park
*Targa Midstream Services LP - Mont Belvieu
*Texas Petrochemicals LP
*Texas Petrochemicals LP - Baytown
*Texmark Chemicals
*TOTAL Petrochemicals USA Inc.
*TOTAL Petrochemicals USA Inc. - Bayport
*Valero Refining - Texas L.P.
*Vopak Terminal Deer Park Inc.
*Vopak Terminal Galena Park Inc.
==History==
In 1955 the Houston Ship Channel Disaster Aid Organization was formed. It was renamed Channel Industries Mutual Aid in 1960
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Headquarters - 1450 East Boulevard, Deer Park===
:Foam Concentrate Tanker
:Mobile Command Post
==See Also==
Defense Daily - Profile: CIMA’s Aid Reaches Beyond Its Boundaries
==External Links==
Channel Industries Mutual Aid Homepage
Category:Harris County, Texas
Category:Industrial Fire Departments (Texas)