Camden, Collingswood, Pennsauken Firefighters Split $1.7M FEMA Grant

NJ Pen. By Matt Skoufalos

...The fire departments of Camden City, Collingswood, and Pennsauken already participate in mutual-aid agreements that help protect the residents of each community, but on Wednesday, the trio deepened that partnership with a significant win: a $1.7-million FEMA grant to standardize life-saving equipment for its first responders.

..."The uniqueness of this grant is the communities working together," said U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (D-NJ), who noted that three, proud departments stifled their competitive impulses in the process.

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