Public Safety Enhanced with Grants to Rural Fire Departments

INCOG administers the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry’s Rural Fire Defense Program. This program protects life and property across the state through the hard work of 860 fire departments. INCOG coordinates the efforts of 68 mostly volunteer rural fire departments in Creek, Osage, and Tulsa counties and in communities whose population does not exceed 10,000 residents.

In addition to the more than $680,000 in operational grants for the rural fire departments in the INCOG program, an additional $165,864 in funding is available to the departments through grants for use in purchasing equipment or facility repairs and maintenance. These are 80/20 matching grants in which the department is responsible for 20% of the cost and the grant will provide the remaining 80%.

Receiving grants are: Burbank Volunteer Fire Department, Denoya Rural Fire Company, Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department, and McCord Volunteer Fire Department in Osage County; Kiefer Volunteer Fire Department and Milfay Volunteer Fire Department in Creek County; and Collinsville Rural Fire Department and Liberty Area Fire Protection Association, in Tulsa County.

For more information, contact Steve Pitts, Rural Fire Defense Coordinator, at spitts@incog.org or 918.579.9422.

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