(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) According to Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, five local fire departments were awarded a total of $591,015 in federal grant funds in December through the Department of Homeland Security’s Fiscal Year 2024 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG). The organizations that received grants with the respective amounts were as follows:

• Beaver Falls Fire Department, $12,290
• Big Beaver Volunteer Fire Company, $4,571
• Darlington Township Volunteer Fire Department, $471,428
• Harmony Township Volunteer Firemen, $59,090
• Moon Township Volunteer Fire Company, $43,636

Deluzio said in a statement announcing the grant awards that “these grants will help our local fire departments buy gear and equipment and better recruit and keep more firefighters on the force.”