Municipalities awarded federal funding to buy fire trucks
By: The Associated Press
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Three Rhode Island municipalities have been awarded federal funding so that each can buy a new fire truck.
The state’s congressional delegation announced that Central Falls, Exeter and Woonsocket were awarded a combined $1.6 million through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.
The Central Falls Fire Department will receive about $475,000 to help replace their current 1988 Pumper Fire Apparatus. It’s no longer operational and the repair costs are estimated at above the truck’s value.
A volunteer fire department in Exeter will receive about $445,000 to purchase a new pumper engine.
The Woonsocket Fire Department will receive about $680,000 to purchase a new aerial ladder truck.
Fire departments in Lincoln, Narragansett and Pawtucket were also awarded a combined $385,000 in grants to buy new equipment.
© The Associated Press WLNE-TV 2016
