Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 109:11

  • Emergency fire assistance: shall mean assistance during a fire emergency, as defined in paragraph I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 109:1
  • Fire emergency: shall mean actual or threatened bombing, shelling or other form of military action which in the judgment of the governor may result in a disastrous fire, and which has been proclaimed by the governor to be a fire emergency. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 109:1
  • Municipality: shall mean any city, town, precinct, village or fire district. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 109:1
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
If, while any fire-fighting personnel or equipment pertaining to a New Hampshire municipality is engaged in rendering emergency fire assistance upon call in another municipality within the state, a fire emergency develops within the municipality to which the assisting fire-fighting personnel and equipment pertain, the chief executive officer of such municipality shall determine whether such personnel and equipment shall be recalled in order to meet the local fire emergency. Upon the recall order issued by such chief executive officer of the assisting municipality, the personnel and equipment shall forthwith return to their normal stations or to the place specified in such recall order. The decision of the chief executive officer of the assisting municipality, made under the emergency conditions contemplated by this chapter, shall supersede any agreements or arrangements for mutual assistance entered into as provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 109:3.