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• Ill. city officials to vote on $1.4M grant to hire firefighters

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  Danville officials must vote to reject or accept a $1.4 million federal grant that will allow them to hire six new firefighters

• Mich. fire dept. awarded $2.4M to hire 15 firefighters

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  The SAFER grant was awarded to the Rochester Fire Department to help the department comply with staffing, response and operational standards

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  Maine fire dept. gets $515K grant to hire more firefighters

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  The grant will pay for the Bangor Fire Department to increase its firefighting roster from 84 to 88, and funds positions that had been previously slashed

• NY town may consider grant to hire more firefighters

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  The grant could be used to rehire laid-off firefighters, retain firefighters facing layoffs, fill positions vacated through attrition or hire new firefighters

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  Firefighter recruitment help is available through SAFER grant

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  FEMA opens the SAFER grant application period for career, combination and volunteer firefighter recruitment assistance

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  Ohio FD: City impeding our $625K grant due to staffing

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  The Norwood Fire Department fell out of compliance for the SAFER grant after retirements and one resignation

• Senate reauthorizes AFG/SAFER and USFA

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  The bill, which is on its way to the president’s desk, will save the FIRE and SAFER grant programs from expiring on Jan. 2

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  U.S. House of Representatives reauthorizes AFG/SAFER

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  Congress has weeks to act before statute authorizing fire grant programs expires

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  Unique partnership leads to a regional recruiting and retention grant

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  A county-wide effort results in a $4.3 million SAFER grant to fund recruitment and training of 500 additional volunteer firefighters

• NJ city approves plan to lay off 64 firefighters to plug $5.3M budget hole

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  The city said it needs to make up an anticipated increase in the 2018 budget caused by the firefighters who are being paid for by a SAFER grant

• Senate passes firefighter grants reauthorization

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  The legislation reauthorizes the AFG, SAFER and FP&S grant programs through 2023

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  Ill. county awarded $810K SAFER grant to hire firefighters

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  City officials said the grant will help supplement its public safety levy funds voters approved this past November

• Fla. county receives $4M SAFER grant to hire more firefighters

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  The grant funds 75 percent of 30 firefighters' salaries and benefits during the first and second year, and 35 percent in the third year

• AFG, SAFER funding preserved in new federal budget

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  The 2017 U.S. government federal spending plan also sustains USFA funding and increases allocation for Urban Area Security Initiative and the USAR system

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  8 firefighter SAFER grant priorities

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  SAFER grant applicants’ success will be partly determined by how well they match up with this list of priorities

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