Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
The Batavia Fire Department has received a federal grant to help fund $262,250 worth of self-contained breathing apparatus and other related items. The Assistance to Firefighters Grant, awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will fund $238,409 of the equipment costs, and the rest will be covered by the city.
The new self-contained breathing apparatus will replace existing SCBA that is 13 years old. The grant also will cover spectacle kits for inside the masks, adapters and filters for use in biological or toxic hazards, rapid intervention air packs, and several additional cylinders for training purposes.
