Proposed AFG Changes Could Ax Rural Depts.
| Looks like the full time fire departments were represented and not the small volunteer department that desperately need this fire act grant! |
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The neediest fire companies across the country would be all but eliminated from receiving fire grants under a proposal penned by several major fire service organizations.
If approved, the match for departments serving populations of 20,000 or fewer would jump from 5 to 15 percent, while those with populations between 20,000 to 50,000 would be 15 percent, up 5 percent from what they pay now.
The proposal by the IAFF, IAFC, NFPA and CFSI surfaced Wednesday during a House subcommittee hearing on the Fire Act grant program reauthorization.
The NVFC was not consulted, and other groups including the International Association of Arson Investigators did not sign off on the 15 percent proposal.
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Photo Courtesy of Ben Eachus
A panel of fire service officials testified before a House subcommittee on the reauthorization of the AFG grant program.
| See any volunteers here, nope can’t afford to take off their job, fly to Washington and testify, who paid for this? |
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