{"id":763,"date":"2010-07-15T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-07-15T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T19:18:02","slug":"news-brief-money-money-money-money-for-volunteer-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Money, money, money, money for volunteer firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six local fire districts have been awarded what totals up to thousands of dollars meant to help rural fire districts pay for equipment, training and protective gear.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"information on downloading application for future grants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.wa.gov\/RecreationEducation\/FirePreventionAssistance\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Volunteer Fire Assistance<\/a> grant funds are provided by the U.S. Forest Service and administered by the state Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Districts which serve fewer than 10,000 residents and provide wildland fire protection to private, state and federal land are eligible for the money, according to a news release from DNR.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis County Fire District 1 serving the Onalaska area was awarded $3,861, according to the news release. Others are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lewis County Fire District 5, Napavine area: $2,597<br \/>\n\u2022 Lewis County Fire District 15, Winlock area: $2,393<br \/>\n\u2022 Thurston County Fire District 16, Bucoda area: $1,589<br \/>\n\u2022 Lewis County Fire District 2, Toledo area: $1,147<br \/>\n\u2022 Lewis County Fire District 4, Morton area: $565<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Six local fire districts have been awarded what totals up to thousands of dollars meant to help rural fire districts pay for equipment, training and protective gear. The Volunteer Fire Assistance grant funds are provided by the U.S. Forest Service and administered by the state Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}