The Illinois State Fire Marshal has awarded several rural Southern Illinois fire departments grant funding for equipment purchases.
The funding is awarded through the Small Firefighting and Ambulance Service Equipment Grant Program; money goes toward purchases of safety equipment and protecting clothing.
In Southern Illinois, these departments received funding:
- Valier Fire Department: $26,000
- Zeigler Fire Department: $26,000
- Equality Fire Department: $19,961.90
- McClure East Cape Girardeau Fire Protection District: $26,000
- Elizabethtown Volunteer Fire Department: $19,020.65
- Gorham Fire Department: $25,539
- Vienna Fire Department: $25,899.25
- Brookport Fire Department: $26,000
- Massac County Fire Protection District: $25,995
- Olmsted Fire Department: $25,990
- Ullin Fire Department: $1,080
- Ellis Grove Volunteer Fire Department: $25,810
- Sparta Fire Department: $26,000
- Eldorado Fire Department: $8,250
- Galatia Fire Department: $26,000
- Ware-Wolf Lake Fire Protection District: $25,688.90
- Valier Fire Department: $26,000
- Zeigler Fire Department: $26,000
- Equality Fire Department: $19,961.90
- Shawneetown Fire Department: $26,000
- Dahlgren Fire Protection District: $24,694.60
- McLeansboro Fire Department: $25,988.43
- Cave-In-Rock Fire/Rescue: $23,269.10
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