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FEMA to open the FY13 round of its Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program on November 4, 2013. $288 million available to fire departments and nonaffiliated EMS organizations.
Awards will support Community Development Financial Institutions that are providing affordable financing and related services to low-income communities and populations that lack access to credit, capital, and financial services.
The attack on Building 197 in the Washington Navy Yard underscores similarities in response for active shooter and terror scenarios, and reinforces the lesson that training should be multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional.