Description
The Fiscal Year 2021 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant Program provides funding to fire departments and volunteer firefighter interest organizations to help increase the number of frontline firefighters. The program has two activities: Hiring of Firefighters and Recruitment and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters. The grant recipients will be required to collect data to measure performance and meet specific programmatic metrics. The grant period of performance will be 12-48 months, and the available funding for this opportunity is $560,000,000.
Key aspects of the job include:
* Hiring new firefighters or changing the status of part-time or paid-on-call firefighters to full-time firefighters
* Rehiring laid-off firefighters or retaining firefighters facing layoff
* Recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters
* Improving staffing and deployment capabilities to respond to emergencies
* Enhancing staffing levels to reduce response times and increase the number of trained personnel assembled at the incident scene
* Meeting industry minimum standards and attaining 24-hour staffing to provide adequate fire protection
* Fulfilling traditional missions of fire departments