Fire Department Receives $500K+ for Communications Upgrades
The North Kingstown Fire Department has received $577,000 in federal grants to improve communications equipment.
Public safety in North Kingstown just got a half-million-dollar boost courtesy of the federal government. U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse along with U.S. Representatives David Cicilline and James Langevin announced that the North Kingstown Fire Department is to receive $577,631 in federal grants. The federal funds will go toward upgrading the department's communications systems and equipment, purchasing portable radios for the firetrucks and in-car repeaters. According to Fire Chief Fenwick Gardiner Jr., these repeaters will help boost signal from the trucks' portable radios. "There are areas in town that are difficult communications wise," said Gardiner "Inside buildings are another link in the length of the chain." …
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