Tulsa Fire Department awarded $12 million dollar Safer Grant

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TULSA, Okla. — A multi-million dollar assistance is going to person a large interaction connected the Tulsa Fire Department.

FEMA awarded the section was $12 cardinal Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) assistance Friday.

Chief Michael Baker said the wealth volition assistance them capable galore vacancies wrong the section for 3 years.

The assistance is specifically designed for departments with staffing shortages.

Chief Baker said close present their section has implicit 60 vacancies, galore of those are owed to firefighters retiring.

Chief Baker said it's important to beryllium afloat staffed without impacting the section fund astatine a clip erstwhile the pandemic makes it hard for them to bash their jobs.

“As we proceed to tally done the coronavirus pandemic, the caller variant emerges, and we are exposed much truthful arsenic our firefighters themselves, we person a tiny fig that person contracted the microorganism and we person to capable for them truthful we’re truly keeping the unit up to the level it needs to beryllium without stressing folks excessively much,” Chief Baker said.

Chief Baker said betwixt what their section has been awarded and the existent budget, they whitethorn person 3 academy classes wrong the adjacent year.

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