FEMA

Next month the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will begin providing financial help to families for funeral expenses to relieve some of the burden related to a death caused by the pandemic. In addition to an application there are many qualifications that would need to be met including the passing would have had to have happened after January 20, 2020 and the deceased must have passed awa

The Pittsfield Fire Department will receive $140,874 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) as part of a Regional Award.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today $42.3 million in direct assistance grants to 290 fire departments nationwide through the agency’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program. Additional phases will soon be announced.

Hurricane Michael was not nice at all to the people of the Gulf Coast, the area known as the Florida Panhandle saw a lot of devastation from this Hurricane that came in right below a Category 5.