Mid-October Award announcements resume and continue on a rolling basis until all available funds have been awarded

Late Fall FY 2012 Fire Prevention and Safety Application Period

Important Reminders for FY 2012 Grant Applicants

1. Award announcements will continue in mid-October. The list of new awardees will be posted each week on the Awards page for each grant program on the AFG website.

2. If your application is approved for award, the primary contact will receive a single e-mail notification from firegrants@fema.dhs.gov; a copy of the e-mail message will be sent to the application's Mail Center in the e-Grant Application system. For confidentiality reasons, application decisions will not be released to anyone other the primary contact listed on the application.

3. Applicants will be required to formally ACCEPT or DECLINE their awards. This should be done as soon as possible after receiving award notification but no later than 30 days after the date of award. The award will not be final until the primary contact formally accepts the award using the e-Grant Application system. Instructions for doing this will be provided in the Award Notice. Grant funds that are declined will become available for award to other eligible applicants.

4. SAM REGISTRATION is required to receive any Federal award, including all AFG and SAFER grants. Awardees must be registered and have up-to-date information in the online System for Award Management or SAM, which has replaced the Central Contractor Registry (CCR). As with the CCR, SAM registration is FREE of charge, must be completed online, and is required of all Federal awardees.

* NEW AWARDEES. If your organization was not registered in the CCR and has not registered yet in SAM, go to the SAM website

and follow the FAQs and User Guides to complete the SAM registration process. Awardees will not be able to draw grant funds until they have completed the SAM registration process. 

 

* PREVIOUS AWARDEES. If you registered previously in the CCR, your data was migrated to the new SAM system, and you will be notified by e-mail when it is time for your annual data update. At that time you will need to create a new SAM account to check and verify your existing data. You don't have to do anything with SAM until it is time for your annual data update, unless there has been a change in your financial or payment information, e.g. DUNS number, payment address. In that case, you should open your SAM account immediately and enter the necessary updates.

* QUESTIONS ABOUT SAM? Go to the SAM website and follow the FAQs and User Guides to complete the SAM registration process. If you are having trouble registering, the fastest way to get help is to visit the website of the Federal Service Desk (FSD). Read their Top FAQs About SAM Registration, User Guides (including one on How to Optimize Browser Settings for SAM), and other resource information. You also can call their toll-free number at 1-866-606-8220, but the FSD advises that their phone lines are very busy. If you need additional help, contact Jane Early or Chanee Williams.

 

5. You can periodically check the status of your application in two ways:

 

* Check for a new message from "firegrants@dhs.gov" in the e-mail inbox of the application's primary point of contact.  If your application is approved for award, the primary contact will receive a single e-mail notification from firegrants@fema.dhs.gov. This is only notification that the applicant organization will receive; 

* Log in to your application using the same e-Grant Application system that you used to submit your application. Look in the AFG Mail Center for a copy of the e-mail notification sent to the primary contact on the application. If no new message is in the Mail Center or the Message Archive, then no decision has been made yet on your application.

6. All applicants will be notified of the decision made on their application regardless of whether they will receive an award. 

  

 

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Check out the latest Report of the Week from the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System. This week's report looks at the importance of keeping alert even when doing routine station maintenance. In this case, a firefighter encountered an unexpected situation as he prepared to mow the station lawn.

Find more resources and submit a near-miss report at www.firefighternearmiss.com.

 

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Name: Justin Townsend
Rank: Junior Firefighter
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 1

Date of Incident: 09/27/2012
Time of Incident: 1712hrs
Date of Death: 09/27/2012

Fire Department: Dagsboro Volunteer Fire Department
Address: 31818 Waples ST, Dagsboro, DE 19939
Fire Department Chief: Shane Furbush

Incident Description: Dagsboro Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched for an outside fire in a wooded area on East Clogg Drive just outside town limits. While en route to Station 73 in a personal vehicle, Junior Firefighter Townsend was fatally injured in a motor vehicle crash on Pepper Road, in the area of Jay Patch Road. No further details of the accident are available at this time. The Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is currently conducting an investigation into the fatal incident.

Funeral Arrangements: Pending. Updates will be posted at http://www.dagsborovfd.com.

Tribute is being paid to Junior Firefighter Justin Townsend at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/

 

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Name: John Grabowski
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Status: Part-time (Paid)
Years of Service: 24
Date of Incident: 10/01/2012
Time of Incident: 0803hrs
Date of Death: 10/01/2012

Fire Department: Riverview Fire Department
Address: 14100 Civic Park Drive, Riverview, MI 48193
Fire Department Chief: Chief Mitchell Jensen

Incident Description: On Sunday, September 30, during his shift, Lieutenant John Grabowski participated in fire department training. His shift ended that day at 1800hrs. The following morning, Lieutenant Grabowski traveled to his second job. At approximately 0803hrs, Lieutenant Grabowski was found collapsed in the parking lot of his second employer. The second employer's emergency response team tended to Lieutenant Grabowski and performed CPR. Advanced Life Support also responded to the scene where they treated Lieutenant Grabowski and transported him to Henry Ford Wyandotte Michigan hospital. Efforts to revive Lieutenant Grabowski at the hospital were not successful and he passed away within approximately one hour of being found in his employer's parking lot. The official cause of death has not yet been determined.

Incident Location: Parking lot of BASF Chemical, Wyandotte, MI

Funeral Arrangements: Pending

Tribute is being paid to Lieutenant John Grabowski at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/ 

To date, 61 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2012. Year-to-date monthly and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online @http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/ff_stats.shtm