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# Fire Service Grants and Funding

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Explore the resources below to identify federal grants and other innovative alternatives that can help provide funds for expenses such as the equipment, apparatus, training and salaries necessary to protect and serve communities.

Need help with your grant application or award? **Contact the AFG Help Desk**

## Assistance to Firefighters Grants programs

Under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) grants programs, career and volunteer fire departments and other eligible organizations can receive funding through three different grants to:
          - Enhance a fire department’s/safety organization’s ability to protect the health and safety of firefighters and the public.
          - Assist fire prevention programs and support firefighter health and safety research and development.
          - Increase or maintain the number of trained "front line" firefighters available in communities.

For more information, including eligibility criteria and application deadlines, select one of the grants below.

Assistance to Firefighters Grants

 Application periodCLOSED

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grants

 Application periodOPENApply by April 12.

Fire Prevention and Safety Grants

 Application periodOPENApply by April 12.

Watch this short video to learn how the Warwick (Rhode Island) Fire Department benefited from a grant award under the AFG program.

Read AFG success stories

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/dSgy1pVHlkI

## Firefighting on federal property

If your fire department recently responded to a fire on federal property, it may be eligible to file a claim under the Reimbursement for Costs of Firefighting on Federal Property Program.

How to file a claim

## Guide to funding alternatives

Updated November 2023

This comprehensive resource tackles the challenges faced by EMS agencies and fire departments, providing vital information on funding sources, grants, and alternative revenue options.

 Download the funding alternatives guide PDF

## Cost recovery tools

### Disaster response

Use these worksheets to track incidents and their combined personnel, equipment and materials costs.
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### Personal protective equipment (PPE) rate calculator

Use these worksheets to track how quickly PPE is used at your facility.
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### More information about grants and funding alternatives

##### You'd be surprised how simple it is for your fire department to get grant money

If you need a grant, it's easier than you think, and help is available every step of the way.
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#### Other opportunities

Grants.govGrants.gov is your place to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. Here you'll find more than 1,000 different grant programs across all 26 federal grant-making agencies awarding more than $100 billion annually.
          - Contingency Planning Guide for Emergency Communications Funding PDF
          - Fire Corps
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          - General Services Administration: How to Acquire Federal Surplus Property
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          - Volunteer retention and recruitment

#### Wildfire funding opportunities

##### Federal grant and cost-share programs

This document describes a variety of pre-disaster federal grant and cost-share programs that can support community-led efforts to prepare for wildfire.

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          - Action, Implementation and Mitigation (AIM) grant
          - Army Corps of Engineers Silver Jackets program
          - U.S. Forest Service: Federal Excess Personal Property Program and Firefighter Property Program

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