Fire District 10 is constantly seeking grant-funding opportunities to reduce the cost of providing fire and life safety services for our citizens.

Total Project Costs

Our Share

GRANTED
or
Denied

1997
We applied for a 35KW generator for Station 1 because of Ice Storm 96.  The grant was funded by Washington State Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

$0

1997
We applied for a Washington State Department of Health grant for an EMS Training manikin that simulates the human body, it was in 1996 that we began running EMS calls.

$7,500

$1,000

Each year since 1998 the Washington State Department of Health has a participation grant of around $1200, we apply for this grant every year.

$13,050 through 2007

$0

1998
We applied for a new Station 2, the grant was a Washington State Hazard Mitigation Grant

$1.5 Million

25%

1999
We applied for money to buy 3 new defibrillators (AEDs) from Prudential Insurance.

$9,000

2000
We applied for Wildland Training Scholarships from the Department of Natural Resources.

$0

2001
We applied for money to buy 2 new defibrillators (AEDs) from Prudential Insurance.

$6,000

$4,000

2001
We applied for a Washington State Department of Health pre-hospital grant for hydraulic extrication equipment for car crashes.

$16,000

$?

2001,
We applied for various types of wildland firefighting equipment from the Department of Natural Resources.

$10,000

$5,000

2001,
We applied for 45 sets of wildland Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), 45 shelters and 45 wildland packs for fighting urban interface type fires.  Included in this grant were of 15 sets structural PPE.  This grant from FEMA now Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.  This grant was denied.

$47,385.

$4,738

2002
Again we applied for the same grant as in 2001 and this time was funded by FEMA

$47,385.

$4,738

2003
We applied for extra SCBA masks, a remodel of Station 2 (Garden Springs area) and a thermal imagining camera, This grant was from the Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

$77,577

$7,758

2003
We applied for the remaining balance from the above grant for a thermal imagining camera.  Additional money came from Northern Quest Casino.

$2500

$0

2004
We volunteered to become one of four county fire districts to receive decontamination equipment trailer from the Department of Homeland Security.

$100,000

$0

2004
We applied for 40 AEDs from various sources.  This project included a partnership with Washington State University, as this study would have been the only kind like it in the Nation.  Sources including Avista, Elsevier Corporation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cardiac Science, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Phillips Medical, Rural Health Viability Health, Cardiac Resuscitation Solutions.  All were denied.  We will keep trying.

$114,000

$?

2004
We applied for new 3000-gallon water tender.  This possible was grant from Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

$185,000

$18,500

2005
We applied for replacement of 17 mobile and 55 portable radios and a 2K generator.  This grant was from Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

$65,800

$3,290

2006
We applied for 46 new SCBAs self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) units.  These are the units that our firefighters use to breath clean air when in a hazardous atmosphere.  This grant is from Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

$232,750

$13,637

2006
We applied for money for the purpose of retention of volunteer firefighters.  This grant is from Homeland Security, Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER).

$95,370

$0

$171,491

$8,574

Pending

$2,870

$0

GRANTED