Legislation and Funding
As part of the FireRescue1 Legislation & Funding topic, we highlight articles that will affect the bottom line of fire department budgets and operations.
The Stevensville Town Council approved a payment to grant writers for an AFG application that would fund 127 new radios for Ravalli County fire departments
Millions in funding are now available to support prevention, treatment and recovery programs
Rhode Island’s congressional delegation joined Warwick fire officials to celebrate a $1 million federal grant that funded 72 new self-contained breathing apparatus units
Mayor expects city will get federal grant to fund and restore 108 of those positions
Inadequate employer contributions, declining investment income, shrinking base of active employees contributed
Town official noticed unusual charges on fire department’s fire truck gasoline credit card
Extras often are jokingly referred to inside Chicago firehouses and at City Hall as ‘junk pays’ or ‘funny money’
Union leaders say the depth of the cuts now leaves the public in danger
Fort Wayne City Council supported paying nearly $10 million for system despite not knowing exactly how to pay for it
Use hard numbers to guide your decision on whether to keep and repair or dump that old apparatus
Brought in to analyze LAFD’s response time reporting, Jeffrey Godown called for dramatic changes data analysis approach
Staff might be needed to staff proposed new station
The privately owned helicopters will be available anywhere in the United States
Volunteers allowed city’s elected officials, municipal employees, business community representatives to go through 4 evolutions of training
$3.67 million facility would shorten response times to section of Topeka previously without a station
Motion claims closing fire departments puts people’s lives and property in jeopardy during fire
The fee would pay for firefighting equipment and personnel
Mayor blames provincial government for not providing adequate ambulance service to rural areas
President Barack Obama signed bill Wednesday hastening addition of those aircraft at cost of $24 million
5 firefighters were injured, 1 seriously, in blaze that destroyed Walker Community United Methodist Church
3 fire stations to close, 16 of district’s 43 firefighters will lose their jobs
New campaign video focuses on Republican’s ‘job elimination plan’
Announcement said organization would soon be contracting 1 air tanker from Alaska, 4 from Canada
16 of city’s 43 firefighters will lose their jobs; three stations will close their doors
Mayor’s chief of staff: ‘It’s going to be hard to sustain [the pension fund] without major [city] contributions’
The high court decided against involving itself in cases it heard in 2009
Fire chief says there has been no wrong doing and the audit will bear that out
Fire chiefs oppose policy of insurer paying patient directly, saying it leads to fraud
By approving two amendments the house restored the grant programs to FY2012 levels
Crash did not affect response times, was attributed to ‘routine maintenance’
District now preparing for layoffs and station closures in the next several weeks
City will pay $700K for the new rig and refurbish one of old aerial trucks
Recent events have renewed calls for federal government to speed up efforts to modernize nation’s firefighting aircraft fleet