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Chautauqua County is receiving $234,000 in Homeland Security Grants

WRFA Radio — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 11:02:48 +0000

Chautauqua County is receiving $234,000 in Homeland Security Grants. Governor Andrew Cuomo says the grants will help with emergency preparedness and response capabilities. The funding supports vital training and equipment for first responders, including specialized law enforcement and fire emergency response teams.

The State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services manages the targeted grant programs.
Chautauqua County will receive $75,000 to equip and train local FBI-accredited bomb squads.

$94,000 will be received through the Hazardous Materials Targeted Grant Program to sustain and enhance hazmat capabilities to help New Yorkers respond to and recover from acts of terrorism and other emergencies.

The County also will receive $15,000 through the Explosive Detection Canine Team Grant Program. This funding provides local law enforcement agencies with active road patrol aid to develop and enhance their explosive detection canine capabilities.

And $50,000 was awarded to the county through the Cyber Security Grant Program which will help enhance their ability to protect, detect, identify, respond to and recover from cyber incidents.

Training for Citizen Preparedness Corps Scheduled for April 24

WRFA Radio — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:40:31 +0000

FREDONIA – Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that the Citizen Preparedness Corps Training Program will take place on Thursday, April 24, in Chautauqua County.

The program, highlighted in Governor Cuomo’s State of the State Address in January and launched in February, aims to provide approximately 100,000 New Yorkers with the tools and resources to prepare for emergencies and disasters, respond accordingly, and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions.

Training sessions will be led by the New York National Guard, working with experts from the New York Division of Homeland Security, Emergency Services’ Office of Emergency Management and Office of Fire Prevention and Control. All training sessions will be coordinated with local county emergency management personnel.

The event will take place at 9:30 a.m. inside SUNY Fredonia’s Williams Center.

Space is limited, so participants are required to register in advance. Pre-registration for the training session is available at: www.prepare.ny.gov.

MORNING NEWS: County Receives Funding for Narrowband Radio System

WRFA Radio — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:38:05 +0000

MAYVILLE – The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office will finally get the financial assistance it needs to implement a new radio system. A north county radio station is reporting this week that the county has received the maximum amount of $6 million in a grant from the New York State Division of Homeland Security – which will be enough to allow the Sheriff’s office to rebuild the county’s public safety radio system.

The grant will enable to the county to replace the system, which comes with an estimated price tag of $7.5 million. County Sheriff Joseph Gerace says the FCC is requiring all radio bands used for emergency purposes to be reduced, or narrowbanded, by the end of this year. The county has already requested a waiver from the FCC since the new changes were due on Jan. 1, 2013.

Local police agencies are also in the process of narrowing banding their own radio systems and those updates will be compatible with the new county radio system. The city of Jamestown had to take out a bond late last year to pay for its narrow banding efforts, which will cost an estimated $600,000.