{"id":8835,"date":"2025-06-17T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:02:48","slug":"masland-announces-funding-boost-for-fire-departments-ground-search-and-rescues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/06\/17\/masland-announces-funding-boost-for-fire-departments-ground-search-and-rescues\/","title":{"rendered":"Masland announces funding boost for fire departments, ground search and rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kim Masland, Nova Scotia’s minister of emergency management, announced more help this week for emergency services personnel to buy equipment. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

Volunteer fire departments and ground search and rescue groups will get more help from the Nova Scotia government to buy equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emergency Management Minister Kim Masland recently announced an increase of $2.8 million to the emergency services provider fund, which also provides funds for hazardous materials units. That fund is now at $4 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

Individual groups can apply for up $30,000, up from $20,000 last year. Up to 90 per cent of costs will now be covered, an increase from 75 per cent. Applications are open until July 30.<\/span><\/p>\n

A new regional category will allow multiple groups from the same area to apply for funding. Up to $200,000 is available in that category. <\/span>Applications are open Sept. 1 to Oct. 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

Masland told QCCR this week the new funding is in addition to reviews the department is doing around the province with fire departments and search and rescue groups to find out what kinds of support they need.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith the frequency and strength of storms that we\u2019re seeing, our fire departments are responding to calls that they\u2019ve never responded to before, like swift water rescues, our ground search and rescues, it seems like every week, I\u2019m hearing of our ground search and rescues doing a rescue call. So we know that everyone is struggling for funds so we\u2019ve actually doubled the emergency services provider fund this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just working on how we can get services out there better. \u2026 Whatever it may be to make sure we\u2019re setting them up for success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizations can also now apply for funding every two years instead of every three.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to an audio clip of Kim Masland here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volunteer fire departments and ground search and rescue groups will get more help from the Nova Scotia government to buy equipment. Emergency Management Minister Kim Masland recently announced an increase of $2.8 million to the emergency services provider fund, which also provides funds for hazardous materials units. That fund is now at $4 million. Individual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3223,1206,428,1645,1200,3222,31],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-emergency-equipment","tag-emergency-management","tag-emergency-services-provider-fund","tag-fire-departments","tag-funding","tag-ground-search-and-rescue","tag-kim-masland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}