Orange Rescue gets $14,054 federal grant
Published: Fri, Dec. 29, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Fri, Dec. 29, 2006 03:13AM
E-Mail
Print
tool name
closeHILLSBOROUGH -- The Orange County Rescue Squad has been been awarded $14,054 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security announced $27 million in grants to 227 fire departments and first-responder organizations Tuesday. Additional grants will soon be announced that will bring total grants to $485 million for 5,000 fire-related organizations nationwide.
"Emergency response is inherently local, and these resources support those who serve us all, our nation's firefighters," said George Foresman, under secretary for preparedness.
More Orange County
Homeland Security received more than 18,000 applications for nearly $2.5 billion in requests in fiscal year 2006.
Get it all with convenient home delivery of The News & Observer.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
