The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced the twenty-third award round for the FY2013 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) fire grants program.
FEMA awarded $6,503,342 to 13 Fire Service organizations throughout the US. Awards included:
- $3,924, Equipment, Operations and Safety, Brooken Volunteer Fire Department, Stigler, OK
- $10,328, EMS Equipment, Operations and Safety, Schuyler Ambulance, Inc., Utica, NY
- $13,750, Equipment, Operations and Safety, Spring Valley Fire Deptartment, Spring Valley, MN
- $32,400, Training, Operations and Safety, Santa Monica Fire Department, Santa Monica, CA
- $44,460, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Operations and Safety, Coalmont Fire Department, Coalmont, TN
- $46,170, Equipment, Operations and Safety, Pleasant Valley Fire Department, Young, AZ
- $59,580, Equipment, Operations and Safety, Hammond Fire Department, Hammond, LA
- $75,644, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Operations and Safety, Leesburg Volunteer Company / Maurice River Twp Fire District 1, Leesburg, NJ
- $89,195, Equipment, Operations and Safety, Central County Fire Department, Burlingame, CA
- $97,742, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Operations and Safety, Birnamwood Area Fire Department, Birnamwood, WI
- $1,485,014, Modify Facilities, Operations and Safety, San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco, CA
- $1,568,160, Training, Operations and Safety, Highland Park Fire Department, Highland Park, MI
- $2,976,975, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Operations and Safety, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Millersville, MD
Round 23 award allocations:
- Operations & Safety: 68 awards, $10,096,042
- Vehicles: 2 awards, $436,996
- State Fire Training Academy: 2 awards, $310,450
Total FY2013 appropriations are $280,163,233: $201,717,528 for Operations & Safety fire grants, $70,040,808 for Vehicle fire grants, and $8,404,897 for State Fire Training Academy fire grants.
To-date, 2,147 fire grants totaling $282,144,223 have been awarded:
- Operations & Safety: 1,892 awards, $219,805,752
- Vehicles: 222 awards, $53,501,855
- State Fire Training Academy: 33 awards, $8,836,616
Estimated remaining funds are:
- Operations & Safety: $0 ($11,849,538 from vehicles)
- Vehicles: $7,120,848 (10%)
- State Fire Training Academy: $0 ($171,774 from vehicles)
With an average of 93 awards per round, the average award amount is:
- Operations & Safety: $116,176
- Vehicles: $240,999
- State Fire Training Academy: $267,776
Estimated remaining awards:
- Operations & Safety: 0
- Vehicles: 30
- State Fire Training Academy: 0
An estimated 1 award round remain. Our thanks to Andy Theriault of Ipswich FD, MA, for compiling these statistics.
See the full FY2013 AFG fire grant award list here. Check back weekly for more AFG award updates!