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• 5 strategies to extend the life of your firefighter gear

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  SCBA life extension and properly cleaning and storing PPE can extend the life cycle and save your department’s budget

• The impact of a government shutdown on public safety

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  Here's a breakdown of who is considered "essential" and "nonessential" during a federal government shutdown

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• How today’s public fire departments were born from private fire brigades

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  The evolution of emergency services provided by municipal fire departments and the fire service budget

• The impact of a government shutdown on public safety

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  Here's a breakdown of who is considered "essential" and "nonessential" during a federal government shutdown

• Mich. township votes to leave co-run fire department

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  Garfield Township voted to leave the three-township department, effective December 2019, due in part to "taxation without representation"

• Ill. city votes to cut fire, police positions to fill budget hole

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  The Peoria City Council voted 8-3 Tuesday to approve eliminating 22 firefighter and 16 police positions as part of a move to close a $6 million budget hole

• Never miss another fire grant application period

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  SAFER, The Fire Prevention & Safety Grant and AFG 2019 are all on the horizon, start the application process today

• Chief Conversations: Long-term funding of federal grant programs

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  This video series is brought to you by Globe and MSA. View the other videos in the series here.  By FireRescue1 Staff FireRescue1 Executive Editor Chief Marc Bashoor speaks with U.S. Fire Administrator G. Keith Bryant at Fire Rescue International about the six-year reauthorization of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) and SAFER grant programs approved by President Trump.  According to Bryant, there is an average of $350 million set aside for each program, but those numbers could go up.  "So far what we're seeing in the Senate and House markups of the budget, they'll stay about where they're at," he tells Bashoor. "But, the indication is there that there might be some additional funding for the Urban Search and Rescue Program and the Urban Areas Security Initative.'

• Ill. city takes first step towards cutting 22 firefighters

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  After a lot of comments, complaints and dire warnings, Peoria officials voted in a nonbinding, advisory vote to approve cuts to the fire and police departments

• Ill. firefighters union: Proposed city budget is harmful to public

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  Union president Ryan Brady said lives will be at risk if the city cuts two fire trucks and 22 firefighters as a proposed budget suggests

• Officials: Pa. fire dept. $500K over budget

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  Reading Fire Department Chief William Stoudt said a lot of the costs are associated with an inability to recruit and keep paramedics

• Austin seeks $38M bond to renovate fire, EMS stations

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  "We literally have been waiting for decades for some of these improvements," Austin Firefighters Association President Bob Nicks said

• Predictive analysis in smaller fire departments

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  Making sure your numbers speak by marrying anecdotal evidence with statistics

• Doing more with less: Fire department budgets, fiscal responsibility

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  Balancing fiscal constraints and expanding expectations by adopting and communicating sustainable service objectives and outcome measures

• NY city weighs options to solve firefighter, police overtime crisis

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  Newburgh officials are discussing how to reduce fire and police department overtime that is on pace to fall far short of more than $700,000 in hoped-for cuts

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