EMS Grants News and Articles

• IAFC details how COVID-19-driven stimulus bill impacts EMS

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  The stimulus bill identifies the funding streams used to reimburse fire and EMS departments for operational costs during national emergency

• USFA issues guidance for COVID-19 cost recovery

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  The U.S. Fire Administration outlined how agencies can take advantage of FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program

• COVID-19 funding to help agencies continue to serve

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  Detailing grant options and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act aimed at relieving financial burdens on communities

• EMS awarded grant for new ambulance receives funds 6 years later

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  Rotterdam EMS was awarded $125,000 in 2014, but faced several roadblocks in obtaining the funds

• Fire department in Calif. awarded nearly $1M for paramedic training

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  The Stockton Fire Department plans to train more of its firefighters as paramedics through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant

• $5M in rural EMS recruitment, substance abuse training grants

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  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is offering 25 grants worth up to $800,000 to rural EMS agencies

• Pa. lawmakers consider bills to expand fire, EMS funding

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  The bills, which passed the state Senate, would allow departments with paid staff to receive funding previously reserved for volunteers

• Education and emergency services partner to battle the opioid epidemic in rural Pennsylvania

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  Grant funding sources have directed focus on the social, economic and health-related issues in rural areas, including the opioid epidemic

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