Law360 Canada ( March 19, 2018, 12:02 PM EDT) -- Application by the county for a permanent injunction prohibiting the respondent fire department from providing services on provincial highways within the applicant’s boundaries unless requested to do so by the applicant. The applicant had its own fire department. Ten municipalities within the applicant’s boundaries contracted with the respondent for fire services. The only area in dispute was the connecting highways between municipalities within the applicant’s boundaries. There were three incidents in 2016 in which the respondent attended the scene of an emergency on a connecting highway, and provided services outside its contracted areas: a car fire the respondent was informed of by a member of the public; a private barn fire; and a motor vehicle accident that it came across. The respondent dealt with the car fire, and remained on the scene of the other two incidents after the applicant’s fire department arrived. The applicant claimed the respondent’s presence was obstructive. All nine municipalities and the county signed a mutual aid agreement under which the respondent was precluded from attending incidents outside its contract areas unless requested by the applicant, and the applicant obtained an interim injunction. In 2017, there was a head-on collision on a connecting highway, resulting in two deaths and two injuries. The applicant was dispatched and arrived first. The respondent was subsequently also dispatched under the auspices of the mutual aid agreement. The respondent claimed the applicant’s fire department ordered it offsite and, had it been able to stay, it could have saved lives. The respondent argued it provided better service, was implicitly authorized by Alberta Transportation, and the applicant’s effort to bar it stemmed from personal animus of the chief....