The funding will cover the costs of new dispatch pagers for personnel use. The pagers will serve as a direct line communication for quick and accurate notifications between firefighters and dispatch.
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Programs that seek to prevent, predict or mitigate the effects of disasters (e.g. fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes); prepare people to cope with disasters; or provide broad-based relief services to disaster victims. Also includes programs that rescue accident victims; provide first aid training and services; and/or offer safety education programs .
Programs that control and extinguish fires; inspect buildings, hillside property and industrial plants to ensure compliance with fire codes; and provide the equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur. Fire Code Inspections; Fire Departments; Fire Safety Inspections; Fire Suppression Systems; Wildfire Residential Fire Protection Systems
Programs that are designed to increase public awareness of the measures that people can take to protect homes, businesses and property from the threat of fire. Fire Safety; First Aid Firefighting
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