Friday, July 10, 2009

PADD Assists Communities with Fire Station Grants

PADD has assisted Bridgeport, Harrison, and McGrew apply for grant funding to develop new fire stations in their communities.

These towns are requesting funds through the ARRA (stimulus bill) Assistance to Firefighters Fire Station Construction Grants (SCG). The program is designed to provides funds to build new or modify exisiting fire stations for fire departments to enhance their response capabilities to better protect the communties they serve from fire and fire related hazards.

It is anticipated that up to 10,000 applications will be received with total requests topping $30 Billion dollars. However, only 100 grants will be awarded nationwide to utilize the $210 million dollars in available funding.

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