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FireRescue1’s Fire Grants section provides a comprehensive database of grants, news, information and resources to help firefighters identify and secure available grant funding.


A SAFER grant will help the Haverhill Fire Department will fund a new ladder truck and increase staffing
Philadelphia is receiving $22.4 million to pay for 72 firefighters’ salaries and benefits for three years, President Joe Biden announced
The project, aimed at thoroughly assessing the occupational risks first responders face, has received an initial funding boost of $249,000
More than $2.5 Million needed to rehire personnel and save department
The state is giving $685K and the city is giving $150K to buy 167 sets of breathing apparatus for Albuquerque firefighters
Among the projects and programs funded are a Joint Hazard Assessment Team and Joint Terrorism Task Force; satellite radio communications system; and hazardous materials training
A 2009 Assistance to Firefighters Grant paid 80 percent of the cost of the devices
If you want to write a grant for fitness equipment, you need to focus on training and responder health and safety
The city will start over with new specifications; may have to repay grant if it aims too high
In December, the city laid off seven of its 13 firefighters to help balance its $4.6 million budget
Firefighters will be hired from the city’s Reduction in Force list, as well as the California Fire Foundation displaced firefighter list
The city had applied for the $1 million grant but the state and city weren’t able to finish plans for the firehouse by deadline
The Missouri Department of Conservation Forestry Division awarded a $645 matching funds grant to the Polk Township Rural Fire Department
Because of budget cuts, the city might have had to close a station, which would have reduced firefighters’ response time
A manufacturer upset with the bidding process caught the attention of FEMA
The firefighters in Huntington were laid off last year; $800,000 in federal grant money will pay for the salaries over two years
The funds were used for a new Physio-control LIFEPAK 1000 Defibrillator
He says the department’s current breathing air packs do not meet current standards and are near the end of their life expectancy
The $4,000 was awarded by the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association
$1.8 million to reopen the station will come from a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
The subcommittee’s bill will now be considered by the full House Appropriations Committee
The Kokomo Fire Department received a SAFER grant
The award from FM Global will be used to assist with pre-fire planning to efficiently collect and track data related to local community buildings
The nearly $800,000 Department of Homeland Security grant would be used to purchase a 30-foot, fully equipped fireboat
The Department of Homeland Security grant funds salaries and benefits for three full-time and three part-time firefighters the next two years