WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced $33.6 million in direct assistance grants to 166 fire departments nationwide, including Winslow, Maine’s, through the agency’s Fiscal Year 2018 Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.
The Winslow Fire Department will receive $36,572 from FEMA for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant, which will be used for Advanced Emergency Medical Technician training.
Also in Maine, the Brewer Fire Department received $17,372 for firefighting hose and Gorham received $94,000 for a fire sprinkler system for the West Gorham fire station.
The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical service organizations. Since 2001, AFG has helped firefighters and other first responders obtain critically needed equipment, protective gear, emergency vehicles, training and other resources necessary for protecting the public and emergency personnel from fire and related hazards.
Eligible applicants include local fire departments, fire districts, nonaffiliated EMS organizations, tribal fire departments and State Fire Training Academies. The grant applications are submitted from each agency directly to FEMA, where the applications are reviewed and scored by fire service personnel from throughout the nation.
