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Federal Emergency Management Agency to award grants on
a competitive basis to fire departments for an array of purposes. In 2019, the AFG program provided $350 million to fire
departments nationwide-including roughly $210,000 to the
WFD for the purchase of thermal imaging cameras.
In Worcester, a native son also stepped up to address the
funding problem. Denis Leary, the actor and comedian, grew
up in the city and was a cousin of Jeremiah Lucey and a
childhood friend of Thomas Spencer, two of the Worcester
Six. In response to the cold storage fire, he launched the Leary
Firefighters Foundation in 2000 as a way to help fire departments obtain equipment, technology, and training. According
to learyfirefighters.org, since its inception the foundation has
committed more than $10 million for programs, equipment,
and other assistance to fire departments in New York, Boston,
Worcester, New Orleans, Detroit, and elsewhere. Through
fundraising partnerships, the foundation supported the WFD
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roughly 73 percent. According to the "Third Needs Assessment
of the US Fire Service" report published by NFPA in 2011, this
growth represented one of the steepest acquisition rates ever
seen for any technology in the fire service.
Part of that success has been due to departments being able
to afford the equipment. The all-hazards expectations placed
on the fire service required an array of resources, many of
them costly, and at the time of the Worcester cold storage fire,
a chorus of fire service voices was calling for federal assistance
to help departments nationwide obtain the necessary equipment, personnel, and training. Events like the Worcester fire
underscored these needs, as did intensified advocacy efforts
from WFD officials and many others around the country.
The result was the creation of the federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program, which launched in 2001. The
AFG program is administered through the Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement Act, which authorized the
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