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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Impetus for Change

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program has provided $2.4 billion to fire departments and first responder organizations for response equipment, personal protective equipment, vehicles and fire prevention activities since 2001. Last year alone, we requested $2.5 billion with only $485 million in grants to go around. Those funds will provide for only about 20% of the total applications, and only 5,000 fire-related organizations out of 18,000 FIRE Grant applicants (about 28%) received funding. In other words, the demand far exceeds the supply. The federal government holds the purse, thus we are ...

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