{"id":71135,"date":"2016-07-24T06:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71135"},"modified":"2016-07-23T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:50:06","slug":"hanna-announces-868000-federal-grant-for-canastota-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71135","title":{"rendered":"Hanna Announces $868,000 Federal Grant for Canastota Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41286\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=41286\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41286\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hanna-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Hanna\" width=\"226\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hanna-for-web.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hanna-for-web-150x143.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Hanna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong><em>Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program helps meet needs of first responders, EMS professionals<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>U.S. Representative Richard Hanna today announced that a Madison County fire department received federal funding that will help its firefighters have the tools necessary to keep the public safe.<\/p>\n<p>The Canastota Fire Department received $868,143 in federal grant funding for Fiscal Year 2015 through the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG). The grant is designated for Vehicle Acquisition and will be used to replace the department\u2019s 37-year-old aerial ladder vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters\u00a0Grant Program is to meet the firefighting and\u00a0emergency response needs of fire <!--more-->departments\u00a0and nonaffiliated emergency medical service\u00a0organizations. Since 2001, AFG has helped\u00a0firefighters and other first responders obtain\u00a0critically needed equipment, protective gear,\u00a0emergency vehicles, training and other resources needed to protect the public\u00a0and emergency personnel from fire\u00a0and related hazards.<\/p>\n<p>The program is administered by the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Federal Emergency Management Agency in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration.<\/p>\n<p>BY THE NUMBERS<\/p>\n<p>Canastota Fire Department<br \/>\nGrant Award: $868,143<br \/>\nFor: Vehicle Acquisition<br \/>\nLocation: Canastota, N.Y.<br \/>\nCounty: Madison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program helps meet needs of first responders, EMS professionals U.S. Representative Richard Hanna today announced that a Madison County fire department received federal funding that will help its firefighters have the tools necessary to keep the public safe. The Canastota Fire Department received $868,143 in federal grant funding for Fiscal Year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23811,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}