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r to each call to safely, legally and effectively operate all necessary vehicles and equipment and provide all necessary services. 4. Command Responsibility The Fire Chief of Long Lake or his Deputy shall have the sole and exclusive right and responsibility to prescribe the manner and method of giving the alarm for fire within the Total Fire Service Area and to prescribe the manner and method of responding to calls and rendering the services contemplated. The said Fire Chief or his Deputy shall immediately upon am'ving at the scene of any alarm or fire emergency have the sole and exclusive responsibility and authority to direct and control any and all fire fighting and the emergency operations at such scene or scenes. 5. Volunteer Fire Fiohters of the City of Long Lake Personnel assigned to provide fire protection services in the Contracting Cities shall be volunteer firemen of the City of Long Lake, which City shall assume all obligations with regard to Worker's Compensation, Firemen's Relief Association, withholding tax, insurance, etc. for such volunteer firemen, if any. The cost of such obligations shall be a part of the costs attributed to the operation of the Long Lake Fire Department and will be included in the Annual Budget Package. 6. Nature of Long Lake Undertaking In no event shall this agreement be construed to fix upon Long Lake any responsibility or liability to the Contracting Cities or to third parties which are greater or different In kind than the responsibilities and liabilities borne by the Contracting Cities if they were providing such services through their own fire departments. 7. Liability Insurance Long Lake shall carry liability insurance in the amount of $1,600,000.00 protecting itself against damage claims of its fire fighters for personal injury sustained while in service within the said limits of the Contracting Cities as hereto set forth. And further. Long Lake shall carry liability insurance in the amount of $1,600,000.00 saving both parties harmless so far as acts of the City of Long Lake, its fire department and its fire fighters are concerned. The cost of such insurance shall be a part of the costs attributed to the operation of the Long Lake Fire Department and will be included in the Annual Operating Budget. Nothing in this contract shall be construed as waiving the statutory liability limits of any city which is a party to this contract. 8. Budget Package 8.1 Definitions A. The Annual Operating Budget refers to the calendar year budget of the Long Lake Fire Department during the first year of any three year period covered by this agreement. This 2