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Article: Health official is promoting mutual aid pact.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2007
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Byline: Bill Fortier
AUBURN - The Board of Health is looking to be part of something that area police and fire departments have had for years.
Director of Public Health Andrew R. Pelletier is working to get nine other communities south and west of Worcester to sign a mutual aid agreement that would allow them to share resources in a health emergency when a town doesn't have enough personnel and equipment of its own. That's similar to what police and fire departments do on a regular basis.
Mr. Pelletier has sent the proposed agreement to the boards of health in Leicester, Spencer, Charlton, Dudley, Webster, Oxford, Douglas, Sutton and Millbury. ...