(1) Each party state shall appoint a liaison for the coordination and deployment of the fire suppression units of each party state.
(2) Whenever the duly constituted judicial or administrative authorities in a state party to this compact, that has entered into a contract pursuant to this compact, decides that the assistance of a fire suppression unit of a party state is required for forest fire suppression efforts, such authorities may request the assistance of one or more fire suppression units of any state party to this compact through an appointed liaison.
(3) Inmates who are members of a fire suppression unit shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of the sending state, and at all times shall be under the ultimate custody of corrections officers duly accredited by the sending state.
(4) The receiving state shall make adequate arrangements for the confinement of inmates who are members of a fire suppression unit of a sending state in the event corrections officers duly accredited by the sending state make a discretionary determination that an inmate requires institutional confinement.
(5) Cooperative efforts shall be made by corrections officers and personnel of the receiving state, located at a fire camp, with the corrections officers and other personnel of the sending state in the establishment and maintenance of fire suppression unit base camps.
(6) All inmates who are members of a fire suppression unit of a sending state shall be cared for and treated equally with such similar inmates of the receiving state, as may be members of a fire suppression unit of the receiving state.
(7) Further, in emergent situations, a sending state shall be granted authority and all the protections of any compact under this chapter to cross state lines with an inmate when, due to weather or road conditions, it is necessary to facilitate the transport of an inmate.