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Board votes to put funding for new fire station back into city budget

Mutual aid agreement for fire departments would be challenging in Dane County

Milwaukee and its neighboring fire chiefs say their agreement to "drop their borders" and send the closest unit to any structure fire is working, but that implementing a similar "shared services" agreement in Madison and Dane County would be challenging.

Madison explores 'border dropping' to speed up emergency response

Mayor Soglin requests study into sharing public safety responders based on proximity, not jurisdiction

The City of Madison is taking the first steps to work with its neighbors to ensure the closest fire engine would be sent to an incident regardless of which municipality it happens to be in.