The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced 24 Round 6 awards for the FY2015 Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (SAFER). The previous award round, Round 5, was announced Aug. 12, 2016. Fire Service organizations receiving hiring fire grant awards and recruitment fire grant awards totaling $28,513,463 include:
- $124,000, Hiring, Glenwood Fire Department, Glenwood, IL
- $188,594, Hiring, City of Randleman Fire Department, Randleman, NC
- $218,000, Recruitment, Back Mountain Regional Fire & EMS, Inc., Dallas, PA
- $341,840, Recruitment, Charlton County Fire Rescue (DBA; Charlton County Volunteer FIre Department), Folkston, GA
- $444,594, Hiring, City of Fort Dodge Fire Department, Fort Dodge, IA
- $773,068, Hiring, Barstow Fire Protection District, barstow, CA
- $822,580, Recruitment, East Rockaway Fire Department, East Rockaway, NY
- $1,007,352, Hiring, City of Niles Fire Department, Niles, OH
- $1,673,558, Hiring, City of Jackson, Jackson, MI
- $5,994,660, Hiring, North Hudson Regional Fire & Rescue, West New York, NJ
Further award rounds will be announced on Fridays until SAFER has made all awards under the current year. Due to continued application scoring or other circumstances, some weeks may not have an award round. See all FY2015 SAFER fire grant awards