ATLANTA – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today awarded $381,599 in Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) funding to local fire departments and emergency medical services organizations in the state of South Carolina.
“The right training and equipment, when matched with the courage of our first responders, will make communities safer,” said FEMA Regional Administrator Phil May. “These AFG funds will help give the firefighters and emergency medical service personnel who serve our nation the tools necessary to do their jobs safely and effectively.”
Nationally, this week’s grants total nearly $17 million. The AFG program includes three kinds of awards: Fire Grants, Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grants and Fire Prevention and Safety grants (FP&S). Today’s grants to South Carolina organizations are:
Fire Grants (funding firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical services organizations, and supporting regional projects involving multiple organizations serving more than one local jurisdiction)
Vineyards Fire District/Pickens County
Operations and Safety
Sunset
$1,804
Friendship FD
Operations and Safety
Honea Path
$70,471
Campobello
Operations and Safety
Campobello
$36,023
Slater-Marietta
Operations and Safety
Marietta
$61,085
Colleton County Fire Rescue
Operations and Safety
Walterboro
$212,216
The fiscal year (FY) 2008 AFG awards, which are being distributed in phases, will ultimately provide about $500 million to fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical service organizations throughout the country.
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