For decades, tribes have helped San Diego County on emergency calls. Now, the two are butting heads over sovereign immunity.

For decades, tribal fire departments have responded to fires or accidents off their reservations under a mutual aid agreement with the county.

But last month, the county notified the tribes that it was going to terminate those agreements and replace them with one that would require the tribes to relinguish some of their sovereign immunity by removing limits to their legal liability.

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