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Green Township seeking FEMA money for turnout gear and an ambulance

GREENFORD — During the Green Township trustees monthly meeting on Tuesday Fire Chief Todd Baird said he is pursuing a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for 12 sets of turnout gear — and once again for an ambulance.

Baird said there is $310 million of grand money available with 25 percent for vehicle and 10 percent for ambulances.

He advised trustees that truck number 214 was in the body shop. He also said the department hoped to be in the new fire station addition by Halloween.

That building, a 40 foot wide by 48 foot long addition at a cost of $341,465, was recently completed. Baird said firefighters put in $3,600 in carpeting, saving the public that amount.

The addition was some four years in planning and design. After a number of delaying architectural problems it was completed in September.

When the 2,000 square-foot addition is fully operational it will provide some convenience that firefighters haven’t had “in a big way,” Baird said.

Before the  $341,465 building addition and with two ambulances, Baird said they couldn’t keep drugs or anything that would freeze on the vehicles and that hurt response times. Now it should be improved by about five minutes he said.

Baird noted the EMS cupboards will be along the west wall and also pointed out that one-third of the money raised for the addition has come from EMS runs.

“We’ve been dealing with a scenario with an old ambulance and then we got a brush truck,” he said about the cramped quarters.

And with additional storage space upstairs for radios, it will be easier to dispatch if Canfield, that handles Greenford’s dispatching, goes down.

In other business, Police Chief Steve McDaniel said the department answered 575 events and logged 8,550 miles on the cruisers during September.

“It was relatively quiet,” he said. Trustee George Toy had asked him about speeding on Middletown Road, saying most of it occurs in the morning hours.

Also, Zoning Officer Bill Pitts said there was one permit issued for a garage. The zoning board will meet at 7 p.m. on Nov. 7. He said one agenda item will be to keep the township “the way it is” and to stop developments with “high-density building.”  He said they want to keep the township agri-residential.

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