The Seymour Volunteer Fire Department responds to one of the many structure fires of 2012. (Archive Photo/The Herald)

While many Federal grants are not designed to benefit an entire community, recent funding awarded to one Seymour institution is likely to prove a useful addition to the area.

“This has not been a quick process,” said Ted Esch, Chairman of the Board for the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department. “It has been at least eight or nine months since we applied for the grant.”

The funding was awarded to the SVFD by Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant.

The SAFER grant will allow for the SVFD to be equipped some of the many things it has desperately needed for so long.

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