The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today announced awards for the Fiscal Year 2007 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Round 1, awarding 459 grants to fire departments throughout the United States. Round 1 will distribute over $35 million.
During the FY 2007 application period, 20,732 applications were submitted requesting awards totaling about $3.4 billion of which the federal share would be about $3.1 billion as the balance would be department's matches. The program has $492 million to award.
The AFG is a competitive program administered by the DHS Office of Grants and Training that awards one-year grants directly to fire departments nationwide in an effort to give every department the basic tools needed to respond to all hazards.
