Florida’s Chief Financial Officer and Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis visited a fire station in Ocoee on Thursday to announce an increase in state funding for a grant program meant to help fire departments purchase safety equipment to limit crews’ exposure to cancer-causing contaminants on the job.
Patronis made the announcement at the Ocoee Fire Station on South Bluford Avenue, where he announced a $112,579 disbursement to the aforementioned effect, part of the $250,000 headed toward the Cancer Decontamination Grant Program in due time, he said. “As we work with the legislature, I’m proud to say that over the last year we have doubled the resources they’ve made available, we’ve got $250,000 that we’re going to be awarding throughout the state and we’re going to give out, today, $112,000 of this money,” Patronis said.