Fire Grants News and Articles

• Build your SAFER application around national standards

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  Start by determining how the appropriate NFPA standard applies to your department

• Grants help ND firefighters get cache of communications equipment

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  Previously, firefighters sometimes had to make calls to each other or to the Law Enforcement Center using their personal cell phones

• 2010 SAFER grant period open

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  Applications can be submitted through the official website, which also provides an application tutorial

• Video could help secure AFG, SAFER funding

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  The CFSI has put together a six minute video that can be used to educate elected officials on the importance of AFG and SAFER funding

• Mass. fire department hit by cuts calls on others for help

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  More than $2.5 Million needed to rehire personnel and save department

• State, city to buy new SCBA for NM firefighters

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  The state is giving $685K and the city is giving $150K to buy 167 sets of breathing apparatus for Albuquerque firefighters

• LA area gets nearly $55 million Homeland Security grant

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  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

• AFG award helps Minn. department buy pulse oximeters

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  A 2009 Assistance to Firefighters Grant paid 80 percent of the cost of the devices

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