Fire Grants News and Articles

• Iowa fire department gets grant to fill positions lost due to cuts

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  The $500,000 grant award will pay for three new firefighters for two years

• Take advantage of program-sponsored grants workshops and tutorials

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• Obama budget calls for cuts to fire grants programs

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  If adopted, the cuts will impact fire grant programs, the U.S. Fire Administration and Urban Search and Rescue

• N.C. firefighters may respond to emergencies via bicycle

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  The department has created a 10-member team who will respond to medical emergencies on specially equipped bicycles

• NY county awarded $3.4M for emergency radio upgrade

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  Most of the money will be used to upgrade the county's four existing relay tower sites by making them taller and sturdier

• Ariz. gets $1.5M grant to hire 12 firefighters

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  This is the second time the district has received the grant; it received a $1.4 million grant in 2006 to help it increase staffing

• N.M. firefighters struggle to respond to fire calls

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  Officials are hoping a $1 million federal grant will pay for firefighters to work 24 hours a day to make up for lack of volunteers

• Mass. towns band together for EMS supplies, grants

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  A $26 state grant will pay for a regional purchase of EMS medical supplies, and other towns have joined forces to seek collective grants

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