{"id":107266,"date":"2018-09-19T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=107266"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:06:07","slug":"convoy-fire-ems-awarded-fema-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/09\/19\/convoy-fire-ems-awarded-fema-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy Fire &#038; EMS awarded FEMA grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $139,980 to Convoy Fire and EMS for operations and safety through the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOhio firefighters and first-responders work every day to protect our families,\u201d\u00a0said Brown.\u00a0\u201cWe must support our first-responder organizations so that communities like Convoy have the resources to shield families and homes from fire hazards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AFG program supports fire departments across the country to ensure the safety of both first-responders and the public. The program provides funds for supplemental training, upgrades to protective equipment, facility modifications, and other supplies that protect firefighters and first-responders in moments of crisis. Grants are awarded to fire department-based and non-affiliated EMS organizations that best address the priorities of the AFG Program. More information about the AFG Program can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/welcome-assistance-firefighters-grant-program\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested fire departments can contact Brown\u2019s grant coordinator to receive information about federal grant opportunities by clicking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.senate.gov\/services\/grants\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $139,980 to Convoy Fire and EMS for operations and safety through the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program. \u201cOhio firefighters and first-responders work every day to protect our families,\u201d\u00a0said Brown.\u00a0\u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 04:56:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}