The Erlanger Fire/EMS department announces Assistance to Firefighters Grant

The Fire/EMS department is pleased to announce the award of yet another 2011 Assistance to Firefighters Grant.  This grant will allow the department to purchase a vehicle exhaust removal system for Station 3 that will remove all vehicle exhaust while the apparatus are running inside the building.  This will allow our personnel to be safer on a day-to-day basis by not breathing harmful diesel exhaust fumes.  The grant will also allow us to purchase a cascade/fill station at station 3 to allow our personnel to fill SCBA cylinders after use at an incident or training.  The total award for this grant is $50,150.

In the past, the Erlanger Fire/EMS Department has been awarded the following grants:

¨      2003 AFG:      $52,570 for wellness/fitness programs and equipment

¨      2005 AFG:     $118,066 for new turnout gear

¨      2007 AFG:     $193,372 for new radios, SCBA, and thermal imaging cameras

¨      2008 AFG:     $64,790 for TRT training

¨      2009 AFG:     $35,000 for replacement of the stand-by generator at Station 1

¨      2010 AFG:     $89,681 for gear, training material, and two heart monitors

¨      2010 SAFER: $471,852 for hiring 3 full-time Firefighter/Paramedics

The department remains fortunate to have received over $1,075,481 from these federal grant programs.  Without these grants, most of these projects would not have been funded.