Air Monitoring Equipment Grants

Good Morning, I am contacting you from the Office of Emergency Management in Dorchester County, SC. I was looking online for some resources for our local fire departments and ran across your website regarding help with fire grants on certain types of equipment.

I wanted to touch base with someone from your establishment to see if you were aware of any air monitoring equipment grants or assistance in obtaining air monitoring equipment. Some of our departments are looking to get these systems, but being primarily volunteer departments, they do not have access to the funds to purchase them.

Any ideas or resources that might could help us?

Thanks for your time!


We assume you are looking for gas meters( that measure 3 or 4 types). Our regional homeland serurity task force (region 13) got every fire department in our county at least one through a grant from Homeland Security. I believe it was DHS money that the state applies for from project request it gathers in the field. You should talk to your state's Homeland Security Director or equivalent to see if they would entertain such a request. This would be a lot quicker than AFG and a lot less competiitve.

A good resource for locating homeland security office by state: http://www.dhs.gov/files/resources/editorial_0306.shtm

Good Luck,
FireGrantsHelp Team