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Section Three: Risk Assessment <br /> <br />Mutual and Automatic Aid Incidents <br /> <br />Eugene Fire & EMS maintains a broad network of mutual and automatic aid agreements with <br />surrounding jurisdictions. Mutual aid defines services provided to another area at the specific <br />request of the jurisdiction having authority, and is granted whenever doing so will not leave areas <br />of primary responsibility with an inadequate level of remaining protection. Automatic aid refers <br />to agreements that provide a pre-determined level of cross-jurisdictional support, usually in <br />boundary areas, without the need for a specific request. The following table shows the number <br />of times each fiscal year, and the daily average that Eugene Fire & EMS responded for mutual or <br />automatic aid to other jurisdictions. <br /> <br /> Table 3.12 Frequency of Mutual and Automatic Aid Incidents <br /> <br /> Call Type FY02 FY03 FY04 <br /> Tota I 80 125 117 <br /> Daily Avg. 0.22 0.34 0.32 <br /> <br />Temporal Distribution of Calls <br /> <br />Calls for service are not distributed uniformly throughout a 24-hour period. The following <br />graphs use a visual aid known as the "radius graph" to display the temporal distribution of calls <br />for service, using the same classification outline found in the frequency analysis. The figure <br />below shows the volume for all responses made by the department in FY04 by time of day using <br />a 24-hour clock. <br /> <br /> 27 <br /> <br /> <br />