First responders win grant to expand radio coverage
By Bill Moss, Published: August 12, 2013
Fourteen area fire departments and rescue squads will benefit from a $554,360 FEMA grant to enhance radio communications from Tryon to Cedar Mountain, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows announced Monday.
Meadows will present the check on Friday at Cedar Mountain Fire/Rescue. The fourteen area agencies that will receive the funding are:
- Cedar Mountain Fire/Rescue, Cedar Mountain, NC, Caesar's Head/Cliff Ridge, SC.
- Blue Ridge Fire/Rescue, Hendersonville.
- Brevard Fire Department, Brevard.
- Brevard Rescue Squad, Brevard.
- Connestee Fire/Rescue, Brevard.
- Etowah/Horse Shoe Fire/Rescue, Horse Shoe.
- Fletcher Fire/Rescue, Fletcher.
- Green River Fire/Rescue, Zirconia.
- Henderson County Rescue Squad, Hendersonville.
- Little River Fire Department, Penrose.
- North Transylvania Fire/Rescue, Pisgah Forest.
- Rosman Fire/Rescue, Rosman.
- Transylvania Emergency Communications Center, Brevard.
- Tryon Fire Department, Tryon.