OHIO — One-hundred-and-ninety fire departments throughout Ohio are being awarded funding through the Small County Volunteer Fire Department Grant.
Nearly $8 million is being awarded to these departments, spread throughout 49 different counties in the state, for them to purchase necessary equipment, make upgrades to their facilities and improve their training, according to a press release from the Division of State Fire Marshal.
“These small, volunteer fire departments, many of which serve rural areas of the state, are the backbone of Ohio’s fire service, and the vast majority of them are working with small budgets,” State Fire Marshal Kevin Reardon said in the release. “Thanks to the work of the legislature, this grant funding will better equip these departments to do a job that our communities rely on them to do, and that is to be there if and when an emergency strikes.”
The release states that the grant was just one initiative of several meant to support volunteer fire departments, at a time when the number of volunteers has been declining even as calls have been increasing.
You can view the full list of departments and award amounts, separated by county, below:
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