Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 109:4

  • Fire department personnel: shall mean regular full-time and call members of a municipal fire department but not including the members of a fire department auxiliary. 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
Whenever, pursuant to the authority granted under this chapter, the members of a local fire department are engaged in assisting another municipality in combatting a fire emergency in such other municipality, such local fire department personnel shall possess the same powers, and have the same duties, rights, privileges and immunities they would have if they were performing the said duties for the municipality or municipalities to whose fire department they are normally attached.