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San Francisco Fire Department wins major FEMA grants, outlines EMS/critical-response pilot
Summary
The Fire Department reported multiple federal grant awards — including a $13.7 million FEMA academy grant and a $600,000 grant for mini-pumpers — and described a phased rollout of a Critical Response Team pilot beginning December with a goal of six teams by March.
The San Francisco Fire Department told the Fire Commission on Sept. 23 that it has been awarded several federal grants and is moving forward with a pilot of a new critical-response program aimed at reducing police responses to nonviolent 911 calls.
Chief of Department Janine Nicholson reported the department has recorded 28 COVID-19 positive staff since the pandemic began and said seven remain off work or in quarantine. “We have had 28 COVID positives, in all since this pandemic began,” Nicholson said, and described tightened screening and testing protocols for wildland deployments.
Nicholson described two recent awards from the Federal Emergency Management Agency: a $13,700,000 grant intended to fund an academy class of 36 recruits and pay their salaries for three years, which Nicholson said would avoid general-fund impact;…
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