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Depts. receive fire safety grants
Grants will be used for equipment improvements
Updated: Friday, 28 Dec 2012, 7:30 PM EST
Published : Friday, 28 Dec 2012, 1:23 PM EST
CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI)- Two local fire departments have been awarded $1.26 million in fire safety grants.
The grants were announced Friday by U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative James Langevin with Mayors Scott Avedisian and Allan Fung.
The federal Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AED) were provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Warwick will receive $741,741 to purchase six new automated external defibrillators (AED). The department will also use the funds to help train firefighters assigned to Advanced Life Support ambulances.
The city of Cranston will receive $521,944 to implement a computer aided dispatch system and to upgrade firefighter's breathing apparatus.
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