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Summer 2007
Employee-Directed Grants
This summer, Fireman's Fund employees awarded 22 grants, totaling $428,000, to fire departments and organizations across the country. Funding for employee-directed grants, part of our employee Bucket Brigade program, is tied directly to our company's performance. The better Fireman's Fund does financially, the more the fire service and the communities they serve benefit.
Here we focus on just a few of our recent employee-directed grants — all of them about some of the most basic equipment of all: turnout gear. A list of other employee-directed grants selected this summer, plus those awarded through our independent agents, can be found below.
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Bolinas, CA Fire Department gets new PPE, thanks to a grant
written by local Fireman's Fund employees. Joining the presentation is
"Into the Fire" director Bill Couturié
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Fort Thomas Rural Volunteer Fire Department
Fort Thomas Fire's 20 volunteers serve 300 families in a small metro area surrounded by a very large wildland territory in east-central Arizona. Fort Thomas, which also has a mutual aid agreement with the nearby San Carlos Apache Reservation, responds both to structure fires and potentially disastrous wildland fires. Their current firefighting gear, which was a gift from fire departments in the Tucson area, is 22 years old.
When Taylor Boyd of our Phoenix office learned that, he set to work nominating the Fort Thomas Rural Volunteer Fire Department for a turnout gear grant. "In this day and age," he says, "I find it unacceptable that firefighters do not have the equipment they need to meet the demands of their jobs. This grant will help fill a critical need – to keep Fort Thomas firefighters safe while they protect the community." The employee grant committee agreed with Boyd, awarding over $18,000 to the department for new turnout gear.
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Fireman's Fund employees awarded the Auburn, Mass FD with $33,944 for new
SCBAs
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West Metro Fire-Rescue District
In 1998, the two small Minnesota towns of Crystal and New Hope combined their fire departments in order to share expenses, equipment and efficiencies, forming the West Metro Fire-Rescue District. But even with the combined resources of two departments, the West Metro District has found itself unable to acquire even basic firefighting equipment in the last few years because of drastic funding cutbacks and budget shortfalls.
The District, with more than 60 personnel, is currently using 15-year-old turnout gear. Robert Karlquist of our Minneapolis office felt this situation needed to be addressed, pointing to the lack of options the district faced in replacing the gear. The employee committee awarded a $15,000 grant for ten sets of turnout gear to begin replacing the current turnout gear.
Share Your Story
Has a Fireman's Fund Heritage grant helped your fire department save a life or even property? We'd love to hear about it so that we can remind our employees and agents about the true value of this program. Please email heritage@ffic.com.
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Grants in Brief |
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Fireman’s Fund employees and independent agencies are directing grants to fire departments across the country. Congratulations to the most recent Fireman’s Fund Heritage grant recipients:
Alabama
- Alexander City Fire Department, Alexander City — $10,000 for firefighter training materials
Alaska
- Anchorage Fire Department, Anchorage — $7,934 for an inflatable raft
Arizona
- Daisy Mountain Fire District, Phoenix — ergonomically designed rescue/transport gurneys
California
- Emeryville Fire Department, Emeryville — $8,480 for a resuscitation training mannequin
- Exeter Fire Department, Exeter — $10,000 for SCBAs, flashlights, rope & related equipment
- Huntington Beach Fire Department, Huntington Beach — $12,000 for fire hose
- Orange County Fire Authority, Irvine — $15,000 for community education
- Ladera Ranch Fire Department, Ladera Ranch — $7,610 for an animated robot to teach fire safety
- Oakland Fire Department, Oakland — $12,000 for heavy rescue operations equipment
- Oakland Fire Department, Oakland — $10,662 for rollover simulator & haz-mat emergency equipment
- Mosquito/Placerville Fire Department, Placerville — $9,100 for turnout gear
- Rancho Adobe Fire Department, Rancho Adobe — $8,415 for mapping software and a resuscitation training mannequin
- Rancho Mirage Fire Department, Rancho Mirage— $10,655 for community education fire safety brochure
- Casa Loma Volunteer Fire Department, Redwood Estates — $26,240 for firefighting equipment
- City of Riverside Fire Department, Riverside — $19,674 for rapid intervention crew equipment
- San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco — $9,971 for supplementary thermal imaging equipment for fire boat
- Contra Costa County Fire Department, Walnut Creek — $10,000 for a thermal imaging camera and fire safety brochures
- Windsor Fire Department, Windsor — $5,917 for an animated robot to teach fire safety
Colorado
- Denver Fire Department, Denver — $5,000 for firefighter fitness equipment
Florida
- Jacksonville Fire Department, Jacksonville — $5,885 for a thermal imaging camera
- Tampa Fire Department, Tampa — $8,800 for a thermal imaging camera
Georgia
- Fulton County Fire Department, Atlanta — $20,000 for apartment fire safety education
- East Point Fire Department, East Point — $9,700 for community outreach and fire safety education materials
- Lakemont-Wiley Volunteer Fire Station/Rabun County Fire Services, Lakemont — $30,000 for self-contained breathing apparatus
- Milton Fire Department, Milton — $10,000 for turnout gear
Idaho
- Twin Falls Fire Department, Twin Falls — $6,500 for communication equipment
Illinois
- Amboy Volunteer Fire Department, Amboy — $16,800 for extrication equipment
- Chicago Fire Department, Chicago — $12,240 for refurbishment of their Survive Alive fire safety house
- Hardin Fire Protection District, Hardin — $28,935 for an air compressor and SCBA fill station
- Red Bud Fire Department, Red Bud — $12,000 for turnout gear
Indiana
- Culver Volunteer Fire Department, Culver — $30,000 for an air compressor to fill SCBA tanks
Kentucky
- Warren County Volunteer Fire Department, Bowling Green — $10,000 for firefighter training
Louisiana
- Fort Pike Volunteer Fire Department, New Orleans — $40,000 for a 4-wheel-drive firefighting equipment truck
Maryland
- Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department, Burtonsville — $10,000 for portable radios
- Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company, Pikesville — $8,453 for communications equipment
Massachusetts
- Boxford Fire Department, Boxford — $9,640 for water and ice rescue equipment
- Swampscott Fire Department, Swampscott — $12,478 for a thermal imaging camera and carbon monoxide detectors
Michigan
- Mackinac Island Fire Department, Mackinac Island — $25,000 for self-contained breathing apparatus
Minnesota
- Deephaven Fire Department, Deephaven — $34,370 for water and ice rescue equipment
- Falcon Heights Fire Department, Falcon Heights — $5,000 for computer training equipment
- Lower St. Croix Valley Fire Department, Lakeland — $14,696 for rescue diving equipment
- Red Wing Fire Department, Red Wing — $5,000 for two automated external defibrillators
- Savage Fire Department, Savage — $5,600 for turnout gear
Mississippi
- City of South Haven Fire Department, South Haven — $14,780 for two thermal imaging cameras
Missouri
- Pattonville Fire Protection District, Bridgeton — $19,073 for a 4-wheel-drive utility vehicle and ambulance
- Fort Osage Fire Protection District, Buckner — $15,000 for portable radios
- Qulin Fire Protection District, Qulin — $11,500 for pagers and portable radios
Montana
- Frenchtown Fire Department, Frenchtown — $5,856 for fire safety education supplies & smoke detectors
New Jersey
- Englewood Cliffs Volunteer Fire Department, Englewood Cliffs — $6,526 for portable radios with speaker microphones and smoke ejector motor
- Livingston Fire Department, Livingston — $7,600 for a thermal imaging camera
- Rahway Fire Department, Rahway — $13,548 for an air purifier and fill system
- Roseland Volunteer Fire Department, Roseland — $5,198 for air lifting rescue bagss
- Saint Barnabas Burn Foundation, West Orange — $75,000 for burn prevention educational videos for firefighters
- Readington Volunteer Fire Company, Whitehouse Station — $10,000 for a thermal imaging camera
New York
- Bedford Village Volunteer Fire Department, Bedford — $31,867 for fire safety education, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, computers and equipment for training
- NYFD, Bronx — $17,164 for a firefighter fitness program
North Carolina
- Apex Fire Department, Apex — $9,765 for an inflatable rescue boat
- Providence Volunteer Fire Department, Providence — $6,301 for fire and rescue equipment
- Troutman Fire and Rescue, Troutman — $8,800 for a water supply system
North Dakota
- Valley City Fire Department, Valley City — $12,200 for rescue air bags
Oregon
- Molalla Fire Department, Molalla — $12,000 for laptop, training software and smoke generator
Pennsylvania
- Fort Washington Fire Company, Fort Washington — $7,500 for vehicle extrication tool, generator & supply hose
- Glenside Fire Company, Glenside — $7,500 for an air cascade system and integrated safety belts
- Johnstown Fire Department, Johnstown — $13,740 for rescue air lifting bags
- Foxwall Emergency Medical Service, Inc., Pittsburgh — $7,359 for community emergency response education and training
- Friendship Fire Company #1, Roaring Spring — $17,500 for rescue air lifting bags and accessories
Rhode Island
- Newport Fire Department, Newport — $6,625 for portable radios and batteries
South Dakota
- Brookings Fire Department, Brookings — $25,885 for a trench and structural collapse stabilization system
Tennessee
- Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad, Knoxville — $35,000 for extrication tools and illumination system
- Christianburg Volunteer Fire Department, Sweetwater — $35,000 for firefighting and communications equipment
Texas
- Briar Volunteer Fire Department, Azle — $20,040 for firefighting & emergency medical equipment
- Plano Fire Department, Plano — $45,000 for fire safety education equipment and defibrillators
Virginia
- Stonewall Jackson Fire Department, Manassas — $15,000 for command vehicle refurbishment
Washington
- Orting Valley Fire and Rescue, Auburn — $17,162 for an external heart monitor and defibrillator
- Wahkiakum County Fire Protection District, Grays River — $9,800 for a battery-powered ambulance cot
- Seattle Fire Department, Seattle — $10,000 towards their arson dog program
A complete list of grants (pdf) is available at www.firemansfund.com/heritage.
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