While some of us are busy putting the final touches on our 2018 AFG Grant applications, others are in the process of accepting their 2017 AFG award and purchasing their requested equipment.
Here’s one important thing to keep in mind that departments tend to forget. Among all the compliance issues for those awards are a number of requirements that could cause you to lose your grant, be required to pay back your grant or have problems applying for future AFG grants. NFIRS reporting is not a requirement to apply for AFG funding; however, fire departments that receive funding under this program must agree to provide information to the NFIRS for the period covered by the assistance. If a recipient does not currently participate in the incident reporting system and does not have the capacity to report at the time of the award, that recipient must agree to provide information to the system for a 12-month period commencing as soon as possible after they develop the capacity to report.