The Fire, Ambulance, & Service Truck (FAST) Fund provides funds for eligible vehicles to provide emergency response and special services to rural communities.
Donor Name: Texas Department of Agriculture
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/29/2022
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Details:
Funding Information
The maximum grant request for FAST Fund applications is $750,000. The minimum grant request is $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are non-entitlement general purpose units of local government including cities and counties that are not participating or designated as eligible to participate in the entitlement portion of the federal Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG). Non-entitlement cities that are not participating in urban county programs through existing participation agreements are eligible applicants (unless the city’s population is counted towards the urban county CDBG allocation).
- Non-entitlement cities are located predominately in rural areas and are cities with populations less than 50,000 thousand persons; cities that are not designated as a central city of a metropolitan statistical area; and cites that are not participating in urban county programs. Non-entitlement counties are also predominately rural in nature and are counties that generally have fewer than 200,000 persons in the non-entitlement cities and unincorporated areas located in the county.
Eligible Activities
- Eligible vehicles/equipment/activities
- Emergency vehicles, including:
- Fire Trucks (most types),
- Ambulances, and
- Other specialized emergency vehicles (must receive approval from TDA at least 30 days prior to the application deadline and cannot already be designated as ineligible.
- Emergency rescue equipment, including:
- Vehicle extrication tools (saws, cutters, spreaders, rams)
- Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBAs),
- Thermal Imagining Cameras,,
- Fire protection gear (wearable, such as Turnout Gear (Bunker Gear), Helmets and Boots)
- Power Stretchers and Stretcher Mounting Systems (ambulance use only),
- Cardiac Monitors (ambulance use only), and
- Transport ventilators (ambulance use only).
- Emergency vehicles, including:
For more information, visit TDA.
