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Malden and Pine City will receive $20K to rebuild fire protections
The funds are intended to help fire departments in Malden and Pine City buy back the basic equipment they lost and rebuild their fire protections. Author: Madeline Nelson Updated: 11:08 AM PST February 15, 2021
MALDEN, Wash. The fire department for Malden and Pine City will receive tens of thousands of dollars from the Washington Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA) after a wildfire devastated the towns in September 2020.
The funds are coming from a grant given to the WFCA in the fall from FM Global to help offset the effects of Washington state s last wild fire season. Some of the worst scenes from last summer s wildfires were seen in Malden and Pine City. Both cities were almost completely destroyed from the Babb Road Fire.
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The check will be presented Tuesday at noon.
According to the WFC, the funds are a portion of a grant the association received last fall from FM Global to help offset the challenges of this past year’s wildland fires across Washington.
Malden and Pine City were destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire in September, destroying homes, businesses, the towns’ fire station and fire engine.
In December, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources delivered a new fire engine to Malden to replace the one destroyed in the fire.
The grant funds from the WFC are intended to help provide the fire department with basic equipment and get the towns’ fire protection rebuilt as they work to recover from the destruction.