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LAFD Awarded $15.4 Million SAFER Grant to 

Restore Engine Companies

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We are incredibly pleased to announce that the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was awarded a $15.46 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that will be used to staff fire engines at four LAFD stations. This is the first time the City of Los Angeles has been awarded the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) hiring grant in the grant's 12-year history. This is the largest SAFER Grant award for any Fire Department in the United States this year. 

 

As many of you remember, the LAFD was one of the deepest cut Fire Departments in America with over 300 Firefighter positions, along with several fire trucks and fire engines permanently eliminated in 2011. The SAFER Grant is the only grant in America that is specific to Fire Department hiring for the restoration of resources. This Grant will allow the LAFD to hire an additional 48 Firefighters in an extra recruit class in early 2018. The added personnel will enable the Department to staff fire engines beginning in the summer of 2018 at stations in Lincoln Heights, Echo Park, Reseda, and Mission Hills. In addition to the funding from the SAFER Grant, the LAFD will contribute $9.6 million dollars over three years to fund the cost of the new Firefighters. 

 

It is important to note that the SAFER Grant can only be used to the RESTORATION of cuts positions and resources. For this reason, LAFD management has rightfully chosen to restore four of the engines that were eliminated from some of our busiest fire stations during the 2011 cuts.

 

For many years now, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City (UFLAC) Executive Board has been pushing hard to receive SAFER Grant funding for our Department. We are extremely grateful that the coalition that we helped to create between UFLAC, LAFD Management, and the Mayor's Office has been successful in this SAFER Grant cycle - as the LAFD is receiving the LARGEST GRANT OF ANY DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY that has been announced so far in 2017.

 

On behalf of the UFLAC Executive Board, I want to give special thanks to the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and IAFF 10th District Vice President and former UFLAC President Frank Lima for his extraordinary support during this process. Brother Lima was instrumental in helping to make sure that the LAFD received this much deserved funding.

 

Feel free to contact me or any member of the UFLAC Executive Board if you have questions or comments on this great news for our Firefighters and our Department.

 

Tony Gamboa,

President, United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, IAFF, Local 112

 

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We are incredibly pleased to announce that the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was awarded a $15.46 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that will be used to staff fire engines at four LAFD stations. This is the first time the City of Los Angeles has been awarded the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) hiring grant in the grant's 12-year history. This is the largest SAFER Grant award for any Fire Department in the United States this year. 

 

As many of you remember, the LAFD was one of the deepest cut Fire Departments in America with over 300 Firefighter positions, along with several fire trucks and fire engines permanently eliminated in 2011. The SAFER Grant is the only grant in America that is specific to Fire Department hiring for the restoration of resources. This Grant will allow the LAFD to hire an additional 48 Firefighters in an extra recruit class in early 2018. The added personnel will enable the Department to staff fire engines beginning in the summer of 2018 at stations in Lincoln Heights, Echo Park, Reseda, and Mission Hills. In addition to the funding from the SAFER Grant, the LAFD will contribute $9.6 million dollars over three years to fund the cost of the new Firefighters. 

 

It is important to note that the SAFER Grant can only be used to the RESTORATION of cuts positions and resources. For this reason, LAFD management has rightfully chosen to restore four of the engines that were eliminated from some of our busiest fire stations during the 2011 cuts.

 

For many years now, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City (UFLAC) Executive Board has been pushing hard to receive SAFER Grant funding for our Department. We are extremely grateful that the coalition that we helped to create between UFLAC, LAFD Management, and the Mayor's Office has been successful in this SAFER Grant cycle - as the LAFD is receiving the LARGEST GRANT OF ANY DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY that has been announced so far in 2017.

 

On behalf of the UFLAC Executive Board, I want to give special thanks to the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and IAFF 10th District Vice President and former UFLAC President Frank Lima for his extraordinary support during this process. Brother Lima was instrumental in helping to make sure that the LAFD received this much deserved funding.

 

Feel free to contact me or any member of the UFLAC Executive Board if you have questions or comments on this great news for our Firefighters and our Department.

 

Tony Gamboa,

President, United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, IAFF, Local 112

 

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Don't expect any of the truck companies to reopen until after all the engines are restored if that 

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Some areas truck co. are needed where there are no others near by 38s the nearest truck at 85s miles away no others around 58s or 47s and the isn't any around 17s those 4 are the main ones and in industrialized areas truck co are needed

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I hate that the article says due to budget cuts. That is only half of the reason. False response times was the main resason the department face the cuts that it did. Had the truth been told that it was taking companies longer to respond due to the brown outs I think a different solution would have been taking.

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