More FEMA grants in Minnesota for home sprinklers

Some folks in Minnesota are very skilled at applying for FEMA grants. St. Louis County in Minnesota has received a grant for $1.1 million to help 126 private homeowners and business buy outdoor sprinkler systems to protect their property from wildfires. The program will cover 75 percent of the costs of installing the systems. 

As Wildfire Today reported on November 12, 2008, Cook County in Minnesota has already received $3 million in FEMA grants for sprinkler systems for homes and businesses. As we stated then, grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be used for something other than adding sprinklers to private property. 

 

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  1. You have to look at the sprinkler systems as a pre-suppression tool used in support of local and state fire agencies that do no have the man power or funds to pre treat these structures. Also these homes are within the famous 99 blow down area which in itself is its own fuel model, it is thick, intense, and extremly dangeous to attack. If a homeowner can switch a valve and walk away so I don’t have to sit in there yard, in the middle of an upstart conifer stand mixed with heavy dead and down, and wait for the train then I am all for it.

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