Wildland Fire Equipment Grants

Firerescue1 s firefighting grants topic section is an online resource page designed to keep fire departments informed of the availability of grants that can be used to fund.

Wildland fire equipment grants.

Grants for fire departments that can help pay for expenses such as equipment apparatus training and salaries. Nobody does wildland like the warehouse. The forest service has been managing wildland fire on national forests and grasslands for more than 100 years. Vfa provides 50 50 matching grants to combination and volunteer fire departments protecting communities with populations of 10 000 or fewer residents to prepare to respond to wildland fires.

The purpose of fire district assistance programs is to provide local and rural fire districts in washington state opportunities to establish develop improve and maintain their wildland firefighting capabilities. Improving the capabilities of local districts helps defend washington against wildfire. But the forest service doesn t and can t do it alone. Historically wildland fires occurred naturally and were critical in regulating both animal and plant communities.

Wildland fire is an umbrella term encompassing prescribed fire and wildfire. The minnesota department of natural resources rural fire department programs provide assistance to minnesota fire departments by providing low cost equipment cost share grants technical assistance and wildland fire training. Instead the agency works closely with other federal tribal state and local partners. Wildland fire is a natural element of both grassland and forest ecology and historically occurred across the state of texas.