During the Thursday General Session, attendees will be engaged and excited as they watch a timed, live broadcast of a mutual-aid excercise of hundreds of emergency vehicles and staff. The Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) of Illinois will demonstrate the dispatch, mobilization, deployment capabilities and capacities of a statewide system. This exercise is unique to FRI and gives attendees an inside look at the mutual-aid process.

In addition, MABAS will have specialized equipment, including decon, compressor/cascade, mobile semi warehouses, mobile semi tent cities, ventilation units, ATVs, generator/light plants, state-sponsored US&R vehicles, mission-support mobile offices, mobile fleet maintenance and refueler, and more will be on display throughout the week.