Last Chance: FEMA SAFER & FP&FSP Grants

FEMA SAFER and FP&FSP Grant Applications are due on July 3, 2025

FEMA Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Program (SAFER) 

🚒Assists local fire departments with staffing and deployment capabilities to respond to emergencies and ensure that communities have adequate protection from fire. Provides critically needed resources to hire new, additional firefighters, to rehire laid-off firefighters, or to retain firefighters facing layoff, as well as recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters. 

🚒 $360 million total program funding. 300 expected awards.

🚒No match required.

FEMA Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&SFP) Grant

🚒Grants to improve the safety of the public and firefighters. 

🚒Program objectives are to:

• Provide critically needed resources to reduce residential fire risk (including access to smoke alarm installations and fire prevention and training)

• Ensure that lives, property, and natural resources are protected from fire through increased community education and awareness programs

• Assist recipients in aggressively investigating every fire through increased equipment, training, and personnel resources.

🚒 $36 million in total program funding. 100 expected awards

🚒 5% Match Required