{"id":93925,"date":"2018-05-29T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93925"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:27:57","slug":"local-canastota-volunteer-fire-and-ambulance-corps-report-on-grant-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93925","title":{"rendered":"Local Canastota volunteer fire and ambulance corps report on grant purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93926\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93926\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wampsville Volunteer Fire Department President Monte Colucci shows off their new extrication device, purchased with the<br \/>2017 CAAC grant money.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Local Canastota volunteer fire and ambulance corps report on grant purchases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The annual Volunteer First Responder Grants sponsored by the Canastota Area Association of Churches have become a highly anticipated opportunity for Canastota\u2019s four volunteer organizations to acquire needed equipment or \u201cshore-up\u201d program expenses. Each group of officers was recently asked about\u00a0 what they did with their recent monies to get an idea of the impact the program is having.<\/p>\n<p>This listing\u00a0 illustrates the variety of priorities which these flexible grants allow each company to accomplish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Canastota Volunteer Fire Department has been applying their funds to install automatic electronic defibrillators in\u00a0various locations. These have included the fire hall itself and on each truck that responds to\u00a0emergencies. Their chief points out that AEDs have been needed not only for reviving fire and crash\u00a0victims, but also for firemen and bystanders under the stress and heat of fully involved structure fires.<\/li>\n<li>The Greater Lenox Ambulance Service uses its grant money to keep on top of training. Each\u00a0responder\u2019s annual certification can cost $25, and any leftover money are applied to special courses or\u00a0the expense of providing training to community groups.<\/li>\n<li>The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department in Clockville recently opened a badly-needed new fire barn and headquarters. The\u00a0building itself is beautiful, but there wasn\u2019t enough funding to equip \u201cnon-essential\u201d areas. They are\u00a0using their grant money to equip their kitchen and plan to use this year\u2019s check to cover the cost of a\u00a0new freezer, which will allow them to resume those famous chicken barbecue fundraisers.<\/li>\n<li>The Wampsville Volunteer Fire Department officers actually drove a pumper truck to the recent presentation breakfast. President Monte Colucci couldn\u2019t wait to show everyone their Colum-Master extrication device used in\u00a0severe vehicle crashes to pull a collapsed steering wheel away from the trapped\u00a0 river. This clever\u00a0device lets one responder do the work of 2-3 men without it, and saves critical minutes in the rescue\u00a0process, sometimes the difference between life and death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The needs of each corps are different as night and day, but the grant money is often the margin of\u00a0victory accomplishing their goals. The Canastota Area Association of Churches is proud of the work our men\u00a0and women rescue responders do and counts it a privilege to help them. To assist in their planning next\u00a0year, the CAAC has announced the 2019 grants will increase to $1,000 for each company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Canastota volunteer fire and ambulance corps report on grant purchases The annual Volunteer First Responder Grants sponsored by the Canastota Area Association of Churches have become a highly anticipated opportunity for Canastota\u2019s four volunteer organizations to acquire needed equipment or \u201cshore-up\u201d program expenses. Each group of officers was recently asked about\u00a0 what they did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-oqV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSCN0213.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93925","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=93925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}