Phone Number: 919-542-4101
Total grants received to date $916,645

Pittsboro Volunteer Fire Rescue Department Inc to Bolster

Fire Prevention Efforts with FM Global Grant

Pittsboro, North Carolina—The Pittsboro Volunteer Fire Rescue Department Inc has received a $2200 fire prevention grant from FM Global, one of the world’s largest property insurers.

FM Global representatives presented the award to Assistant Chief Brian Shaw and Captain Daniel Strother at the Pittsboro Volunteer Fire Rescue Department Inc. located on 150 Sanford Road  in Pittsboro. The award will be used to assist with prefire planning to efficiently collect and track data related to local community buildings.  The information will help the fire service respond in an emergency situation.

Because fire continues to be the leading cause of property damage worldwide, during the past 30 years FM Global has contributed millions of dollars in fire prevention grants to fire service organizations around the globe. Locally, the company has awarded grants to a number of North Carolina-based organizations.

“At FM Global, we believe strongly that the majority of property damage is preventable, not inevitable,” said Michael Spaziani, manager of the fire prevention grant program. “Far too often, inadequate budgets limit those organizations working to prevent fire from being as proactive as they would like to be. With additional financial support, grant recipients can make a difference in helping to improve property risk in the communities they serve.”

Through its Fire Prevention Grant Program (www.fmglobal.com/grants), FM Global awards grants quarterly to fire departments—as well as national, state, regional, local and community organizations worldwide—that best demonstrate a need for funding, where dollars can have the most demonstrable impact on preventing fire, or mitigating the damage it can quickly cause.

To learn more about FM Global’s Fire Prevention Grant Program, or to apply for a grant, please visit www.fmglobal.com/grants.

Fire Station Construction Grant Awarded

Pittsboro Volunteer Fire Rescue Department was notified  September 23,2009  by Congressman Bob Etheridge regarding being awarded a Homeland Security Fire Station Construction Grant in the amount of $607,500.

This grant will be used for the construction of a Fire Station to serve the Asbury Community and surrounding areas. The building will house an Engine, Tanker/Tender, and First Responder Vehicle. The Fire Station will have a fire sprinkler system, fire alarm, vehicle exhaust removal system, kitchen, dayroom, bedrooms, storage room, and two offices.

About the Homeland Security Fire Station Construction Grant

The Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Fire Station Construction Grants (SCG) will provide financial assistance directly to fire departments on a competitive basis to build new or modify existing fire stations in order for departments to enhance their response capability and protect the community they serve from fire and fire-related hazards.  The authority for SCG is derived from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).  Congress appropriated a total of $210 million for this Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 program

LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES $305,945 THROUGH FEMA’S

FY 2008 STAFFING FOR ADEQUATE FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SAFER) GRANT PROGRAM

(Pittsboro, NC) –8-21-2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded a $305,945  Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grant (SAFER) to the Pittsboro Volunteer Fire-Rescue Department Inc.  

About SAFER Grants