Fire Grants News and Articles

• Your volunteer retention playbook: How to maintain membership

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  Four common retention pitfalls, plus simple solutions for improving department culture and keeping firefighters happy

• Worcester to hire 60 firefighters, buy gear with $15M FEMA funds

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  A SAFER grant will cover the new crewmembers' salaries for three years

• Pa. bill would increase funding for fire departments, EMS agencies

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  The measure would remove a current restriction on grants and designate parts of the state's fireworks tax revenue for financial and educational aid for first responders

• AFG, SAFER reauthorization introduced in Senate

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  S. 4882 also increases funding for the USFA to $95 million and repeals the sunset provision for AFG and SAFER

• $1M Conn. fire station renovation project helps establish gender equality

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  The project allows for a restroom and showers for a female firefighter as well as expansion of living accommodations and the bunk room

• Ind. firefighters, police receive cardiac, metabolic testing

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  Through a Dukes Healthcare Foundation grant, leaders brought Sigma Tactical Wellness representatives to Peru

• 2 N.Y. capital-area FDs to receive nearly $1M in U.S. grants to address staff shortages

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  Troy Fire Chief Eric McMahon: "This grant will fund the training of firefighters to the level of paramedic. This funding could not have come at a better time"

• Will the Build America, Buy America Act provisions affect grant programs?

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  FEMA's waiver was accepted, meaning 2021 grantees will not be required to follow the BABAA requirements until January 2023

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