Fire Grants
FireRescue1’s Fire Grants section provides a comprehensive database of grants, news, information and resources to help firefighters identify and secure available grant funding.
The Princeton Fire Department purchased six Level A suits for hazardous materials incidents
Fire departments have been given broad discretion in how to use the funds, such as purchasing equipment related to fire, rescue and emergency services
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Gap Fire Company received $47,025; Lancaster City Bureau of Fire received $40,000
Grants totaling nearly $20,000 given to volunteer fire departments, ambulance squads, first responder units
Truck will replace department’s existing tanker, now 27 years old
$10,000 grant from Community Foundation of Abilene will pay for extricator
Commissioner OK’d spending federal grant money to buy equipment including 159 new breathing apparatuses with carbon-fiber air tanks
This measure would authorize extension of Fire Act Grant until 2016, which is critical to life of fire service in US
More than $1.3 billion was earmarked for 7 separate grant programs
Department used federal grant at end of 2011 to purchase 100 bed shaker alarms and 100 strobe-light alarms
New equipment for Kent County essentially will allow for updating dispatching center consoles
Donation helped to buy ladder truck that has already made difference to department by replacing outdated truck
Restaurant’s foundation gives more than $40,000 to departments in the Carolinas
AFG funds training, health programs, new safety equipment and emergency vehicles, and increased training for front-line firefighters
Funds will pay for new air packs and recharging station
Grant will be used to update mountaintop radio repeaters, dispatch console in command center, supporting infrastructure
Lenox Fire Department will be able to replace its 20-year-old SCBA; Great Barrington ambulance squad won money to buy protective gear
The proposed 2013 budget would cut another $2 million each from the AFG and SAFER programs
DHS also is announcing new initiative to encourage drawdown of obligated, but unspent, homeland security grants from FY 2007 and later
Program is open to career, volunteer and combination departments
AFG grant guidance document gives values to each of 5 categories for EMS applications, which they call ‘funding priorities’
‘It’s almost like we won the lottery,’ Fayette Fire Chief Marty Maxwell said
Fire departments, a safety squad were awarded more than $2 million in federal grants for training, equipment, vehicles
President will seek more grant money for programs that allow local communities to hire more police officers, firefighters
Nearly $9 million in grant money that saved more than 30 jobs, fire station runs out Aug. 13
$658,000 AFG will buy digital radios to work with new communications system that eventually will let all local emergency responders talk to each other
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