The Department of Homeland Security announced the awarding of grants under the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) program for FY2005.
In this award announcement, 1 department were given grants for Hiring firefighters totaling $595,410.00. Congress committed $65 million to the program which is being distributed here.
The purpose of the SAFER grants is to award grants directly to volunteer, combination, and career fire departments to help the departments increase their cadre of firefighters. Ultimately, the goal is for SAFER grantees to enhance their ability to attain 24-hour staffing and thus assuring their communities have adequate protection from fire and fire-related hazards. The SAFER grants have two activities that will help grantees attain this goal: 1) hiring of firefighters and 2) recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters.
The Hiring of Firefighters Activity involves a five-year grant to assist fire departments pay a portion of the salaries of newly hired firefighters. These newly hired positions must be in addition to authorized and funded active firefighter positions. Grantees must do everything in their power to maintain the number of authorized and funded positions as declared at the time of application PLUS the awarded new firefighter positions throughout the period of performance (five years). Grantees that fail to maintain this level of staffing risk losing all or a portion of their grant. Volunteer, combination, and non-profit career fire departments are all eligible to apply for assistance in hiring new firefighters. These grants require the awardee to match an increasing proportion of the salary over a four-year period; in the fifth year of the grant, the awardee must absorb the entire cost of any positions awarded as a result of the grant.
The Recruitment and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters Activity provides assistance to awardees for periods of up to four years. The purpose of these grants is to assist with the recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters. Volunteer departments, combination departments and local or statewide organizations that represent the interests of volunteer firefighters are eligible to apply for assistance under this activity.
DEPARTMENT NAMESTATEGRANTCATEGORYFF
HIRINGSAWARD Round 8 City of Salamanca Fire Department NY Hiring 6 $595,410 Round 7 Westminster Fire Department CO Hiring 1 $100,000 Quitman Fire Department GA Hiring 4 $194,281 Ellington Volunteer Fire Department MO Recruitment $185,390 Hanover Fire & EMS VA Recruitment $986,400 Round 6 Santuck Volunteer Fire Department AL Recruitment $301,000 Golder Ranch Fire District AZ Hiring 3 $300,000 Sonoita Elgin Emergency Services Inc. AZ Hiring 6 $461,079 Santa Rosa Fire Department CA Hiring 3 $300,000 Yuba City Fire Department CA Hiring 3 $300,000 Midway Fire District FL Hiring 6 $600,000 Oxbow Volunteer Fire Company NY Recruitment $22,800 Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton VFD VA Recruitment $75,000 Round 5 Anchorage Fire Department AK Hiring 10 $1,000,000 Fresno Fire Department CA Hiring 10 $1,000,000 City of Daytona Beach FL Hiring 12 $1,191,505 City of Miami Department of Fire Rescue FL Hiring 26 $2,600,000 Leesburg Fire Department FL Hiring 12 $1,200,000 Bartow County Fire Department GA Hiring 12 $1,200,000 Carroll County Fire Rescue & EMA GA Hiring 18 $1,765,847 East Point Fire Department GA Hiring 15 $1,500,000 City of Kenner Department of Fire Suppression LA Hiring 21 $1,630,748 St. George Fire Protection District LA Hiring 18 $1,800,000 Utica Fire Department MI Recruitment $29,884 Winston-Salem FD NC Hiring 12 $1,157,247 Paterson Fire Department NJ Hiring 64 $6,374,080 North Las Vegas Fire Department NV Hiring 15 $1,500,000 Euclid Fire Department OH Hiring 10 $1,000,000 Eugene Fire & EMS Department OR Hiring 12 $1,200,000 Hendersonville Fire Department TN Hiring 15 $1,500,000 Wilson Emergency Management Agency TN Hiring 12 $1,200,000 Round 4 San Diego Fire-Rescue Department CA Hiring 18 $1,800,000 Bristol Township Fire District PA Hiring 4 $400,000 Round 3 Chula Vista Fire Department CA Hiring 9 $900,000 City of Lowell Fire Department MA Hiring 8 $800,000 Frenchtown Charter Township MI Hiring 9 $900,000 Eden Fire Company No. 1 PA Recruitment $42,200 Arlington County VA Hiring 8 $800,000 South Kitsap Fire Rescue WA Hiring 9 $900,000 Round 2 Seldovia Village Tribe AK Recruitment $50,906 East Alabama Water Sewer and Fire Protection Distr AL Recruitment $10,800 Arkansas RC&D Council AR Recruitment $393,916 Department of Emergency Services CA Recruitment $271,500 Klamath Fire Protection District CA Recruitment $53,050 Sebastopol Fire Department CA Recruitment $196,800 Soledad Fire Department CA Hiring 1 $100,000 Squaw Valley Fire Department CA Hiring 3 $300,000 Leadville Lake County Fire Rescue CO Recruitment $107,600 Tri-County Fire Protection District CO Recruitment $76,400 Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District CO Hiring 7 $700,000 Oakdale Volunteer Fire Company Inc. CT Recruitment $130,000 Haines City Fire & Rescue FL Hiring 6 $583,471 Key Largo Volunteer Fire Rescue Department, Inc. FL Recruitment $50,000 Marathon Fire Rescue FL Recruitment $106,570 Pasco County Fire Rescue FL Recruitment $44,000 West Brow Fire & Rescue, Inc. GA Recruitment $94,086 Buckeye Fire Department IA Recruitment $11,000 Iowa Falls Fire Department IA Recruitment $12,660 Montpelier Volunteer Fire Department IA Recruitment $146,250 City of Cottonwood Fire Department ID Recruitment $34,380 Smiley Creek Fire Protection District ID Recruitment $28,800 Calumet City Fire Department IL Hiring 6 $600,000 Canton Fire Department IL Hiring 1 $100,000 Kankakee Township Fire Protection District IL Recruitment $30,000 Pocahontas Old Ripley Fire Protection District IL Recruitment $10,680 Fire District # 1 - Johnson County, KS KS Hiring and Recruitment 3 $363,024 Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas KS Recruitment $38,250 Green River Firefighters Association KY Recruitment $9,280 Hutchison Station Volunteer Fire Department KY Recruitment $44,720 Amherst Fire Department MA Hiring 5 $500,000 First Hose Company of Boonsboro, Inc. MD Hiring 1 $96,080 Brighton Area Fire Department MI Recruitment $41,528 Independence MI Recruitment $50,000 Looking Glass Regional Fire Authority MI Recruitment $55,400 Village of L'Anse MI Recruitment $82,200 Belton Emergency Services MO Hiring 3 $300,000 Bolivar City Fire Department MO Recruitment $82,085 Rock Community Fire Protection District MO Hiring 9 $900,000 Bolivar County Volunteer Fire District MS Recruitment $180,800 Holly Springs Fire Department MS Hiring 6 $575,670 Frenchtown Rural Fire District MT Recruitment $34,200 Alarka Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. NC Recruitment $16,520 Asheville Fire Rescue NC Hiring 3 $271,471 Beaufort Fire Department NC Hiring 3 $283,759 Cedar Mountain Volunteer Fire Rescue, Inc. NC Recruitment $42,980 Churchland Rural Volunteer Fire Department NC Recruitment $146,360 North Carolina State Firemen's Association NC Recruitment $237,011 Hanover NH Fire Department NH Hiring 4 $400,000 East Corning Fire Department, Inc. NY Recruitment $61,880 East Rockaway Fire Department NY Recruitment $144,100 Evans Center Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. NY Recruitment $48,800 Gates Fire District NY Hiring 4 $400,000 West Falls Volunteer Fire Company NY Recruitment $268,000 Somerset-Reading Township Fire Department OH Recruitment $19,300 Chouteau Fire Department OK Hiring 1 $70,496 Keystone Volunteer Fire Department OK Recruitment $10,012 Oak Grove Fire District OK Recruitment $67,100 Banks Fire District #13 OR Recruitment $94,400 Corvallis Fire Department OR Hiring 2 $200,000 North Douglas County Fire & EMS OR Recruitment $96,656 Philomath Fire & Rescue OR Recruitment $119,834 Bristol Township Fire District PA Hiring 4 $400,000 Edinboro Volunteer Fire Department PA Recruitment $244,245 Central Coventry Fire District RI Hiring 4 $400,000 Conway Fire Department SC Hiring and Recruitment 4 $442,524 Silver Bluff Fire Department SC Recruitment $14,290 Webster Volunteer Fire Department SD Recruitment $63,284 Liberty Hill Volunteer Fire Department TX Hiring 3 $276,995 Lillian Volunteer Fire Department TX Recruitment $61,700 St. George Fire UT Hiring 3 $300,000 Loudoun County Fire Advisory Council, Incorporated VA Recruitment $230,000 City of Port Townsend Fire Department WA Recruitment $172,500 Eastside Fire & Rescue WA Recruitment $68,000 Mason County Fire District #6 WA Hiring 1 $81,491 Snohomish Co. Fire Dist. # 26 WA Recruitment $276,748 Thurston County Fire Protection District #3 WA Hiring 6 $600,000 Round 1 Foley Fire Department AL Hiring 6 $600,000 Springville Fire Department AL Hiring 7 $700,000 Linden Fire District AZ Hiring 3 $199,215 Hualapai Valley Fire Department AZ Hiring 6 $600,000 City of Evans Fire/Rescue CO Hiring 6 $600,000 City of Marianna, Fire - Rescue FL Hiring 3 $200,975 Union City Fire Bureau GA Hiring 6 $600,000 Wauconda Fire Department IL Hiring 3 $300,000 Romeoville Fire Department IL Hiring 3 $300,000 El Dorado Fire Department KS Hiring 3 $265,798 City of Radcliff Fire Department KY Hiring 1 $98,303 Yarmouth Fire/Rescue ME Hiring 1 $81,661 Chesterfield Township Fire Department MI Hiring 6 $600,000 Rochester Fire Department MN Hiring 3 $300,000 AUSTINTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT OH Hiring 3 $300,000 Silverdale Volunteer Fire Company PA Recruitment $367,800 Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association PA Hiring 2 $190,324 Greenwood Rural Volunteer Fire Dept. TX Recruitment $14,400 Kyle Volunteer Fire Department TX Hiring 3 $298,619 Allen Fire Department TX Hiring 3 $300,000 South Jordan Fire Department UT Hiring 6 $600,000 Moses Lake Fire Department WA Hiring 2 $200,000
