The 2018 Safer Grant application period is open; understand the objectives, guidelines and your eligibility
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By Jerry Brant
The DHS has announced the fiscal year 2018 SAFER Grant period and guidelines . An announcement said 300 SAFER Grants equaling $350,000,000 are available to fire departments.
The SAFER Grant program provides direct funding to volunteer, career and combination fire departments and volunteer firefighter interest organizations. The objective of the SAFER grant program is to assist local fire departments with staffing and deployment capabilities to respond to emergencies and ensure that communities have adequate protection from fire and fire-related hazards.
Local fire departments accomplish this by increasing the number of firefighters and how they are deployed to more effectively and safely respond to emergencies and meet industry minimum standards. With enhanced staffing levels, recipients should experience a reduction in response times and an increase in the number of trained personnel assembled at the incident scene.
The goal of the program is for departments to meet or surpass NFPA 1710: Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments ; or NFPA 1720: Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations and Special Operations to the Public by Volunteer Fire Departments , whichever applies, for staffing and deployment.
SAFER funding may be used to recruit and hire new, additional firefighters or it maybe used to retain firefighters.
Under the FY 2018 SAFER Grant program , eligible applicants are limited to those entities described below within each activity:
Career fire departments are not eligible to receive a SAFER Grant award under the Recruitment and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters Activity.
A waiver is now available for the position cost limit and the applicant cost share. The amount of federal funding provided to a recipient under the SAFER Hiring of Firefighters Activity for hiring a new firefighter in any fiscal year must follow these guidelines:
The SAFER application period opened on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. The application window closes on Friday, Mar. 22, at 5 p.m., EST. Good luck to all applicants.
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