Another fire chief in northern Wisconsin called me to ask whether his volunteer department could go ahead with needed upgrades for their equipment. Without their federal grant, which was more than half of their operating budget, they would not be able to purchase the new chassis needed for their department's purposes. And from western Wisconsin, a local mayor reached out to me to share that a pause in federal funding would be catastrophic for their ability to make timely payments on a loan they took out to make necessary renovations to their fire department. (04:26–04:42)
CLAIM
Asserts that a fire department cannot purchase new equipment without federal grants.
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