EMS Grants News and Articles

• CARES Act and grant funding: How it will benefit local fire and EMS response

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  The Act provides $150 billion for a Coronavirus Relief Fund to make payments to local governments

• CARES Act Payroll Protection Plan can help struggling ambulance services

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  Unique federal loan is easy to apply for and will likely not have to be repaid

• IAFC details how COVID-19-driven stimulus bill impacts EMS

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  The stimulus bill identifies the funding streams used to reimburse fire and EMS departments for operational costs during national emergency

• USFA issues guidance for COVID-19 cost recovery

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  The U.S. Fire Administration outlined how agencies can take advantage of FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program

• COVID-19 funding to help agencies continue to serve

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  Detailing grant options and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act aimed at relieving financial burdens on communities

• EMS awarded grant for new ambulance receives funds 6 years later

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  Rotterdam EMS was awarded $125,000 in 2014, but faced several roadblocks in obtaining the funds

• Fire department in Calif. awarded nearly $1M for paramedic training

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  The Stockton Fire Department plans to train more of its firefighters as paramedics through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant

• $5M in rural EMS recruitment, substance abuse training grants

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  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is offering 25 grants worth up to $800,000 to rural EMS agencies

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