Blunt
Announces Fire Departments Receive Homeland Security Grants
JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 4, 2005-Missouri’s local
fire departments will now be better equipped to respond to disasters
thanks to Gov. Matt Blunt. Today Missouri was awarded over $1.3 million
for 14 Missouri fire departments. The grants represent the 8th and
9th round of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of
Domestic Preparedness Assistance to Firefighters Grant Awards, awarded
on a weekly basis.
Director Mark James of the Department of Public Safety
said the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program assists local fire
departments in purchasing firefighting equipment, funding firefighter
health and safety programs, enhancing emergency medical services programs,
and conducting fire education and prevention programs.
“Firefighter Grant Awards from the Department
of Homeland Security allow our local fire and emergency response teams
to be outfitted with the equipment and vehicles they need to adequately
protect and serve Missourians,” James said.
Missouri Fire Departments receiving grants to purchase
equipment through the Operations and Safety program are: City of Ava
VFD ($26,477), Cape Girardeau FD ($150,950), Cross Timbers RFD ($23,940),
Dexter FD ($170,668), Jackson Township FPD ($35,435), Lawson F&R
FPD ($119,679), Lotawana FPD ($47,391), Macon Rural FPD ($87,923),
Mountain View FD ($56,050), Perryville FD ($90,013), Seneca VFD ($73,540),
Southern Stone County FPD ($351,531), Vienna VFPD ($88,654), and Webster
Groves FD ($27,900).
To date, 116 Missouri Fire Departments have received
$11,883,716 for the 2005 Assistance to Firefighter Grants program,
which began Aug. 19, 2005.
For more information on the Assistance to Firefighters
Grant Program, please contact Terri Durdaller at (573) 751-4819.