Summersville Fire/Rescue Awarded Grant
Missouri Department of Conservation employees present Sonny Holden, fire chief, a check for $1469 at the Summersville Fire and Rescue Station last week. Pictured are Kevin Halsey, Lloyd Rome, Sonny Holden, Chris Mahan and Robert Crewse.
The Summersville Fire and Rescue Department received a matching fund grant check for $1469 to help purchase fire equipment and protective gear.
During June, July and August, matching funds grant checks for rural fire departments are being distributed by Missouri Department of Conservation Forestry Division staff.
The Angeline Work Team of the Missouri Department of Conservation recently presented a matching funds grant check to Sonny Holden, Fire Chief of Summersville Fire and Rescue. This department received $1469 to help purchase fire fighting equipment and protective gear. The MDC Eminence Forestry District office staff would like to personally thank Sonny Holden and all members of the Summersville Fire and Rescue for their response and participation in wildfire suppression efforts in Shannon County. This rural fire department has an aggressive program of well trained volunteers who are dedicated as well as very professional. Wildfire suppression efforts in Shannon County would be much more challenging without their initial response and suppression efforts and continual communication with MDC personnel. This grant check will help the Summersville Fire and Rescue further enhance their program.
One hundred eighty-two fire departments will be receiving checks of up to $3,000 to help them with the purchase of personal protective gear, and fire fighting equipment, for wildland d fires as well as structure fires.
The total funding for fire department matching grants this year is $376,748.
Fire departments are required to match these funds which are provided by the US Forest Service and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
During the last 26 years, over $5 million has been distributed to rural fire departments to help them increase the safety of their firefighters and provide them hem with better fire fighting equipment.

