Randolph VFD gets $198K grant

Published 12:12 pm Thursday, October 29, 2015

CUMBERLAND — The Randolph Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded a $198,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) that will be put toward the purchase of a new tanker truck for the department’s fleet.

According to Fire Chief Ryan Bates, the grant will cover about 70 percent of the total cost of a new tanker. “We’re going to have to come up with the other 30 percent,” he said.

The department is in the process of seeking bids for the vehicle.

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Part of the grant required a local match from the board of supervisors of $9,000, or five percent of the FEMA grant.

The department’s only tanker was manufactured in the late 1970s, Bates said, and needs to be replaced.