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4 primary purpose of this Agreement. Each Party shall be responsible for communicating in writing its response criteria and procedures to each of the other Cities, the President, and the applicable County Emergency Communications Center. VI. LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION 1. For the purposes of the Minnesota Municipal Tort Liability Act (Minnesota Statutes, chapter 466), the employees and officers of the Sending Party are deemed to be employees (as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 466.01, subdivision 6) of the Requesting Party. For all other purposes, all personnel remain the employees of their respective Party during the performance of duties under this Agreement. 2. The Requesting Party agrees to defend and indemnify the Sending Party against any claims brought or actions filed against the Sending Party or any officers, employees, or volunteers of the Sending Party for injury to or death of any third person or persons, or damage to the property of any third person or persons, arising out of the provision of Assistance by the Sending Party under this Agreement. Under no circumstances, however, shall a Party be required to pay on behalf of itself and other Parties, any amounts in excess of the limits on liability established in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 466 applicable to any one Party. As provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 471.59, subdivision 1a, for the purposes of determining total liability the Parties shall be considered a single governmental unit and the total liability for the Parties shall not exceed the limits on governmental liability for a single governmental unit as specified in Minnesota Statutes, section 466.04, subdivision 1. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted as any of the Parties waiving any exemptions or limitations on liability available to them under law. The intent of the indemnification requirement of this section is to impose on each Requesting Party a limited duty to defend and indemnify any Sending Party for claims arising within the Requesting Party’s jurisdiction subject to the liability limits under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 466. The purpose of creating this duty to defend and indemnify is to simplify the defense of liability claims by eliminating conflicts among defendants, and to permit liability claims against multiple defendants from a single occurrence to the defended by a single attorney. 3. No Party to this Agreement, nor any officer of any Party, shall be liable to any other Party or to any other person for failure of any Party to furnish Assistance to any other Party, or for recalling Assistance. VII. ADDING MEMBERS Any other city/town/fire department corporation adjacent to the Protection Area may join this Agreement upon the written consent of all of the existing Parties to this Agreement that abut upon the boundaries of the joining Party, the adoption by the joining Party a resolution authorizing execution of this Agreement, and the filing of a copy of the