New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 75A - FIRE SERVICE RESOURCE EMERGENCY DEPLOYMENT › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 5:75A-1.5 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following terms shall have the meanings indicated, except
				  where the context clearly requires otherwise.
"Chief officer" refers to any fire service personnel who lawfully
				  utilizes or who otherwise officially and lawfully holds the titles of Fire Chief,
				  District Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief, Assistant Fire Chief, Battalion Fire Chief,
				  or any other title in which the individual performs the functions of the
				  aforementioned titles, whether in a permanent, provisional, or acting capacity, in a
				  volunteer, career, or combination fire department.
"County fire coordinator" means the individual appointed by the
				  State fire coordinator pursuant to
				  5:75A-2.3.
"County fire mutual aid plan" means a plan, prepared and adopted
				  by a county in accordance with
				  5:75A-2.4, which sets forth the measures
				  that are to be implemented in those instances where the fire service resources of an
				  individual municipality within the county are unable to respond adequately to an
				  emergency incident or a local fire emergency disaster and, therefore, it is
				  necessary for the county to coordinate the delivery of fire service resources and
				  assistance to that municipality from other municipalities in the county.
"Deputy county fire coordinator" means an individual appointed by
				  the county fire coordinator pursuant to
				  5:75A-2.3 to assist the county fire
				  coordinator with the duties and responsibilities of his or her position and to serve
				  as the county fire coordinator in his or her absence.
"Deputy State fire coordinator" means an individual at least as
				  qualified as a county fire coordinator appointed pursuant to
				  5:75A-2.3(d)1 
				  appointed by the State fire coordinator from the employees of the Division of Fire
				  Safety to assist the State fire coordinator with the duties and responsibilities of
				  his or her position and to serve as the State fire coordinator in his or her
				  absence.
"Division" means the Division of Fire Safety in the Department of
				  Community Affairs.
"Emergency incident" means any situation to which a unit of the
				  fire service responds to deliver emergency services including, but not limited to,
				  rescue, fire suppression, special operations and other forms of hazard control and
				  mitigation.
"Fire service resources" means fire fighters and other personnel
				  utilized by a unit of the fire service to provide rescue, fire suppression and
				  related activities whether those fire fighters and personnel are volunteer or
				  career; trucks, rescue vehicles and other vehicles used for fire fighting and
				  emergency purposes; and fire fighting and rescue equipment used for fire or
				  emergency purposes, including communications and protective equipment. Fire service
				  resources shall not include emergency medical service providers and personnel,
				  except that any unit or personnel that provides both fire and emergency medical
				  services shall be subject to this chapter while performing fire suppression and
				  related activities.
"Forest fire service" means the agency within the Department of
				  Environmental Protection that is responsible for the protection of life, property
				  and natural resources from wildfire.
"Incident commander" means the individual in overall command or
				  control of the fire service personnel, and associated emergency equipment and
				  emergency vehicles, at the site of an emergency incident.
"Local fire emergency disaster" means an emergency incident which,
				  in the judgment of the incident commander, is of such severe degree and nature that
				  it presents a significant threat to the health, safety and welfare of a municipality
				  and its residents and, therefore, may warrant the implementation of the
				  municipality's municipal emergency operations plan.
"Local fire mutual aid plan" means a plan, prepared and adopted by
				  a municipality or fire district in accordance with
				  5:75A-2.2, which sets forth the measures
				  that are to be implemented in those instances when the fire service resources of the
				  municipality or fire district cannot adequately respond to an emergency incident or
				  a local fire emergency disaster and, as a consequence, it is necessary for the
				  municipality or fire district to request assistance and fire service resources from
				  contiguous municipalities.
"Order of deployment" means an order issued by the State fire
				  coordinator pursuant to this chapter to a unit of the fire service requiring the
				  immediate response, recall or standby of that unit's fire service personnel,
				  emergency equipment or emergency vehicles, or any part thereof.
"Regional fire coordinator" means an individual appointed by the
				  State fire coordinator pursuant to
				  5:75A-3.2 to assist the State fire
				  coordinator with the duties of his or her position.
"State fire coordinator" means the Director of the Division of
				  Fire Safety in the Department of Community Affairs, or his or her designee.
"State firewarden" means the chief of the forest fire service in
				  the Department of Environmental Protection or his or her designee.
"Unit of the fire service" means a department or force, be it
				  paid, part-paid or volunteer, established and maintained by the State or any of its
				  instrumentalities, any local governmental unit or any of its instrumentalities, any
				  State or local authority, fire district or non-profit corporation, association or
				  organization for the purposes of fire suppression, rescue and related
				  activities.