(Undated) -- Pennsylvania has sent 125 Emergency Medical Services personnel to New Jersey to help with building evacuation and hospital care after Hurricane Irene. Joe Schmider runs the state’s Emergency Medical Services. He says from the time Pennsylvania got the request from New Jersey to have back-up EMS teams at the ready, it took about an hour-and-a-half for ambulances to hit the road. "It’s done very quickly. It can be as much as just a verbal, 'Okay, we’re on the same page,' and you just go, so you can move the resources fast, and then you make the numbers work, you know you work on the numbers after the event, a little more detailed," he says. How did they make that deal? All the states are part of a congressionally-created agreement -- the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. Its administrators work with state emergency officials to figure out the logistics and the costs of loaning out a bunch of Pennsylvania emergency personnel. Schmider says PA’s EMS teams could stay in New Jersey until tomorrow.