EMS Grants News and Articles

• Mich. state awarded $28M in grants to combat opioid crisis

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  The state will use the funding to provide families with treatment and prevention resources, while also funding data collection efforts

• Buffalo Fire Department awarded FEMA grant for more training, equipment

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  The $322,000 grant also will be used to send 55 firefighters and 10 officers to EMT and mass casualty incident response training

• Md. county new EMS program to include peer recovery specialists

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  The county will use one of two grants to allow for a team of four peer recovery specialists to ride with EMS personnel during drug overdose calls

• Texas fire department purchases off-road ambulances through state grants

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  The all-terrain response units will also be used at the 9/11 Memorial Bicycle Ride

• NC county awarded $2.2M state grant for new emergency call center

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  The money will help fund renovation, hardware, equipment and associated technology costs for the call center

• SC city firefighters now equipped with naloxone

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  Firefighters will be carrying two doses of naloxone after the department administered the drug on 223 calls in one year

• 6 Mont. EMS departments receive $300K to start pilot program

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  Six Montana EMS departments received $50,000 each to purchase equipment and begin training for an integrated healthcare pilot program

• Calif. awarded $11.3M grant to upgrade 911 centers

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  California received the largest award in the country, totaling $11,399,076 to improve its 911 centers

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