Area fire departments receive radio grants
COLUMBUS Several area fire departments will receive grants to upgrade their radio communications systems.
Statewide, 373 fire departments in 65 counties will receive the 2021 Multi-Agency Radio Communications Systems grants.
The MARCS radio system allows first responders to communicate not only with each other but other agencies including fire or law enforcement agencies.
The State Fire Marshal’s office received more than $9 million in requests for the $3 million in available funding.
Here’s how area counties fared:
In Allen County, the Beaverdam-Richland Fire Department, the Harrod Volunteer Fire Department and the American Township Fire Department each received $5,000.
One person dead in Sunday evening Lima apartment fire
LIMA A person whose identity has not yet been revealed died in a Sunday night house fire in Lima.
According to a spokesman for the Lima Fire Department, firefighters responded at 9:13 p.m. Sunday to 1050 MacKenzie Drive in response to a report of a person possible still inside a burning apartment building.
Upon their arrival firefighters found smoke coming from the structure and forced their way inside, where they found a victim deceased in the bathroom of the apartment. A fire was burning in a bedroom, where firefighters also found a portable oxygen tank and smoking materials, according to the LFD spokesman.
Controlled burn underway at Hermon Woods metro park
LIMA The Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District is conducting a controlled burn of brush piles to clean the North Trail at Hermon Woods Metro Park.
Officials say the burn will last for several days and will be conducted in a safe manner. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and American Township Fire Department have been contacted concerning the controlled burn.
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