{"id":140275,"date":"2025-02-11T19:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140275"},"modified":"2025-02-11T19:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:57:17","slug":"mcneill-over-100000-awarded-for-firefighters-ems-providers-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140275","title":{"rendered":"McNeill: Over $100,000 awarded for firefighters, EMS providers in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, Feb. 11 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Jeanne McNeill said the Office of the State Fire Commissioner awarded almost $111,000 to help firefighters and EMS providers in her district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire and EMS companies and first responders in general are the backbone of our community,\u201d said McNeill, D-Lehigh. \u201cThe more funding we provide them, the more prepared they are to ensure that we in the 133<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Legislative District are safe. Not to mention, these workers are always facing challenges. This funding will help them overcome the many obstacles they face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McNeill said the following organizations serving those in her district received funding through the Fire Company and Emergency Medical Services Grant Program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catasauqua Fire Department &#8212; $15,461.31<\/li>\n<li>Coplay Fire Department &#8212; $14,600.59<\/li>\n<li>Egypt Fire Company No. 1 Whitehall Fire Department &#8212; $14,170.24<\/li>\n<li>International Association of Fire Fighters Lehigh-Northampton Airport &#8212; $14,170.24<\/li>\n<li>Hokendauqua Fire Co. &#8212; $13,955.06<\/li>\n<li>Fullerton Fire Company No. 1 &#8212; $13,524.70<\/li>\n<li>Fountain Hill Fire Company &#8212; $12,663.99<\/li>\n<li>Han-Le-Co Volunteer Fire Co. 1 &#8212; $12,018.46<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The grant program covers facility construction and renovation; equipment purchase or repair; debt reduction; training and certification of members; and recruitment and retention; among other projects.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nDeclan Shaffer<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Feb. 11 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Jeanne McNeill said the Office of the State Fire Commissioner awarded almost $111,000 to help firefighters and EMS providers in her district. \u201cFire and EMS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McNeill: Over $100,000 awarded for firefighters, EMS providers in Lehigh County<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rep-Jeanne-McNeill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}