I was wondering what everyone thought my department's chances were to get award a new pumper through Vehicle Acquisition in AFG? We had help writting our grant this year from Ron at ActionTraining. This will be our fourth year for applying for grants. So far we are 2 out 3 on grant awards. Last year however we applied for a new truck and didn't even make it to the peer review.
We did however find many errors in the answers we supplied last year. Our old fire chief handled the application and really messed up alot. We did however correct the answers for this year's grant with the help of Ron and several other grant writters.
We are applying for $194,000.00 to go towards the purchase of a new pumper. Currently our Rural Fire Association has no pumper. Our city department has a 1963 Reo pumper, but it is not aloud outside our city limits. We cover an 80 mile square radius outside of city limits, and we are working with a budget of about $3,000.00 per year with no surplus funds. Our other appartus consists of a 1983 Chevy 1 ton and a 1970 Chevy flat bed brush trucks. We have two tankers, one's a 1,000 gallon tanker and the other holds 3,000 gallons (old military fifth axle).
We responded to mainly rural fires, probably about 60% wildland and 40% structual or vehicle fires. We probably average about 60 to 70 fires a year.
Everyone around here is getting very anxious, and we were wondering what our chances of being awarded was. Thank you so much!
We did however find many errors in the answers we supplied last year. Our old fire chief handled the application and really messed up alot. We did however correct the answers for this year's grant with the help of Ron and several other grant writters.
We are applying for $194,000.00 to go towards the purchase of a new pumper. Currently our Rural Fire Association has no pumper. Our city department has a 1963 Reo pumper, but it is not aloud outside our city limits. We cover an 80 mile square radius outside of city limits, and we are working with a budget of about $3,000.00 per year with no surplus funds. Our other appartus consists of a 1983 Chevy 1 ton and a 1970 Chevy flat bed brush trucks. We have two tankers, one's a 1,000 gallon tanker and the other holds 3,000 gallons (old military fifth axle).
We responded to mainly rural fires, probably about 60% wildland and 40% structual or vehicle fires. We probably average about 60 to 70 fires a year.
Everyone around here is getting very anxious, and we were wondering what our chances of being awarded was. Thank you so much!
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