Bethesda Fire Department Receives Grant

(Bethesda Fire Department Photo)

The Bethesda Fire Department recently received a grant from the Leary Foundation of New York City that provides funding and equipment to fire departments throughout the United States. The grant application came from a tip from June Diehl, an Epworth Park cottage owner. 

Bethesda applied for and was funded to purchase a Multi-Force Forceable Entry Door System that is described in a marketing piece as a “patented door system is by far the most realistic and versatile forcible-entry training device on the market today. You can train your members using every technique which applies to inward-opening doors, outward-opening doors, left-hand and right-hand swinging door, with metal or wood jambs, using halligan and flat head axe or maul. Hydra Ram and rabbit tool can also be used”

The department thanks June and Citizens First Fire Training of Chillicothe, “a firm that offers courses for fire fighters, EMTS, and safety personnel in live fire and smoke training, primary and secondary search, rural engine and truck company” for making the project possible.