Miami Valley fire departments awarded grants from State Fire Marshal – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio

MIAMI VALLEY — Multiple Miami Valley fire departments have been awarded grant money to help them improve their radio communication systems.

The grants were awarded by the State Fire Marshal to help switch the departments over to the Multi-Agency Radio Communications System (MARCS).

The system allows fire departments to communicate not only with each other but with all other agencies responding to an incident, according to a release.

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Agencies from Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery and Shelby counties were awarded grants.

The MARCS Grant is available annually to fire departments with service areas of 25,000 people or fewer and up to $50,000 per department is available through this grant.

More than 300 fire departments across the state were awarded a total of $3.5 million.

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