Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) Program

The AFG Program provides financial assistance directly to eligible fire departments, nonaffiliated emergency medical service (EMS) organizations, and State Fire Training Academies (SFTAs) to equip and train emergency personnel to recognized standards, outfit responders with compliant personal protective equipment, provide funding to retrofit or modify facilities to protect personnel from known health hazards, acquire emergency response vehicles, design and implement health, wellness and resiliency programs that prepare responders for incident response, enhance operational efficiencies, foster interoperability, and support community resilience. Funding activity: Firefighting equipment, personal protective equipment, training, and wellness. Eligibility: Fire Departments, State Fire Training Academies, Nonaffiliated Emergency Medical Services Award ceiling: 9,000,000 CFDA: 97.044