Press Release - Friday, September 30, 2011
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Governor Quinn Announces Volunteer Fire Assistance Program Grants
CHICAGO – September 30, 2011. Governor Pat Quinn today announced that 90 Illinois communities will benefit from more than $677,000 in federal grants to rural fire protection districts and fire departments. The Volunteer Fire Assistance grant program is a federally-funded program that provides matching funds to aid fire departments in the purchase of new equipment and training.
“This important program boosts public safety by helping many of Illinois’ rural and small town fire departments upgrade their equipment and training,” Governor Quinn said. “Homeowners and business owners throughout the state will benefit from this assistance to their local firefighters.”
The Volunteer Fire Assistance grant program reimburses 50 percent of the recipients’ costs for providing training and acquiring equipment to assist local firefighters. Grant recipients must make the initial financial outlay for the projects before being reimbursed. The grants announced today are supporting more than $1.3 million in local projects.
The U.S. Forest Service grant program is administered in Illinois by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), however no state funds are involved.
“Local firefighters will be able to do a better job of protecting property and lives in their communities thanks to the federal funds being used for the new equipment and training these grants support,” IDNR Director Marc Miller said.
A list of the 90 grant recipients is below:
Volunteer Fire Assistance Program Local Agency Grant Awards
| Volunteer Fire Department Name | Grant Amount | County |
| Alto Pass FD | $ 7,331.50 | Union |
| Amboy FPD | $15,000.00 | Lee |
| Anna FD | $11,500.00 | Union |
| Ashland VFD | $ 1,375.75 | Cass |
| Bath FPD | $ 4,420.00 | Mason |
| Bismarck Comm. FPD | $ 6,000.00 | Vermilion |
| Blackhawk FPD | $ 7,105.00 | Rock Island |
| Bourbonnais FPD | $ 2,400.00 | Kankakee |
| Brighton Betsey Ann FPD | $ 2,878.00 | Macoupin/Jersey |
| Cerro Gordo | $ 2,985.00 | Piatte |
| Chadwick FPD | $ 6,876.85 | Carroll |
| Cobden VFC, Inc. | $14,959.50 | Union |
| Crete FD | $ 1,500.00 | Williamson |
| Crete Township | $14,850.00 | Williamson |
| Divernon FPD | $ 5,647.00 | Sangamon |
| Dixon Rural FPD | $ 4,120.00 | Lee/Ogle |
| Dowell FD | $ 1,441.00 | Jackson |
| Easton Rural FPD | $ 4,750.00 | Mason |
| Fairbury, City of | $10,262.28 | Livingston |
| Fillmore Comm. FPD | $ 3,316.00 | Montgomery |
| Fox Lake FPD | $14,770.00 | Lake |
| Freeport Rural FPD | $ 5,019.75 | Stephenson |
| French Village FPD | $ 7,200.00 | St. Clair |
| Godfrey FPD | $15,000.00 | Madison |
| Grant Park, FPD | $ 5,000.00 | Kankakee |
| Greater Wabash FPD | $13,365.00 | Wabash |
| Greenville FPD | $ 7,061.50 | Bond |
| Hebron/Alden/Greenwood FPD | $ 3,750.00 | McHenry |
| Hull-Kinderhook FPD | $ 4,804.00 | Pike |
| Jonesboro FPD | $ 7,500.00 | Union |
| Kankakee Twp. FPD | $ 4,975.00 | Kankakee |
| Keyesport FPD | $ 9,490.00 | Bond |
| Lake County Wildland FTF | $ 459.00 | Lake |
| Lake Egypt FPD | $ 7,399.00 | Williamson |
| Lena FPD | $10,385.00 | Stephenson |
| Leonore VFD | $15,000.00 | LaSalle |
| Lexington FPD | $ 0,800.00 | McLean |
| Liberty FPD | $12,000.00 | Adams |
| Limestone, FPD | $ 4,300.00 | Kankakee |
| Lincoln FPD | $ 7,314.00 | Coles |
| Loami, FPD | $ 2,901.00 | Sangamon |
| Lostant FPD | $15,000.00 | LaSalle |
| Maeystown | $ 2,500.00 | Monroe |
| Magnolia FPD | $ 2,000.00 | Putnam |
| Massac FPD | $15,000.00 | Massac |
| McClure/East Cape Girardeau | $ 7,982.50 | Alexander |
| Metropolis FD | $ 5,765.00 | Massac |
| Mid_Piatt FPD | $ 2,325.00 | Piatt |
| Milledgeville FPD | $ 2,475.00 | Carroll |
| Morris FPD | $15,000.00 | Grundy |
| Mt. Hope Funks Grove | $ 5,012.50 | McLean |
| Mulberry Grove | $ 3,960.00 | Bond/Fayette |
| Neoga FPD | $ 3,967.50 | Cumberland |
| New Athens | $ 7,463.00 | St. Clair |
| Newport | $ 3,500.00 | Lake |
| Niota FD | $ 6,000.00 | Hancock |
| North Clay FPD | $12,370.00 | Clay/Effingham |
| Northern Piatt FPD | $ 8,077.00 | Piatt |
| Oakland FD | $15,000.00 | Coles |
| Odin FPD | $ 7,497.50 | Marion |
| Oglesby FD | $ 6,600.00 | LaSalle |
| Olmsted FD | $ 2,160.00 | Pulaski |
| Olney FPD | $ 5,000.00 | Richland |
| Park Forest FD | $ 2,102.00 | Cook/Will |
| Petersburg FPD | $ 9,574.50 | Menard |
| Pleasant Plains | $ 5,000.00 | Sangamon |
| QEM | $14,200.00 | Jersey |
| Rapids City FPD | $12,500.00 | Rock Island |
| Roanoke FPD | $ 915.00 | Woodford |
| Rural Pope County | $12,608.00 | Pope |
| Salina Township FPD | $ 2,565.00 | Kankakee |
| Scales Mound FPD | $ 6,347.78 | Jo Daviess |
| Secor FPD | $ 4,079.00 | Woodford |
| Sheridan Comm. FPD | $ 8,750.00 | LaSalle |
| Sherman FPD | $ 1,617.00 | Sangamon |
| South Jacksonville FPD | $15,000.00 | Morton |
| Spring Valley FD | $ 2,402.12 | Bureau |
| St. Libory FPD | $ 7,287.50 | St. Clair |
| Standard FPD | $ 4,625.00 | Putnam/LaSalle |
| Stockton FPD | $14,408.00 | JoDaviess |
| Timber Hollis, FPD | $ 8,115.00 | Peoria |
| Union FPD | $14,824.50 | McHenry |
| Utica FPD | $ 6,810.00 | LaSalle |
| Valier FPD | $ 7,600.00 | Franklin |
| Valmeyer FPD | $ 8,720.00 | Monroe |
| Vergennes FD | $ 400.95 | Jackson |
| Ware-Wolf Lake FPD | $ 2,850.00 | Union |
| Williamson County FPD | $ 6,590.00 | Williamson |
| Williamsville, FPD | $10,464.00 | Sangamon |
| Woodland FPD | $ 4,990.00 | Iroquois |
| Grand Total | $677,211.48 |
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