Thornapple Township Emergency Services announced they will receive a $167,522 grant to replace all of the self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) currently in service at TTES.

The Assistance to Firefighters grant (AFG) was awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The grant, with a matching amount of $8,376, will fund replacement of the current SCBAs that have reached the end of their life expectancy and become costly to maintain.

The SCBAs are critical to the responders wherever immediate dangerous to life hazard conditions are present, said TTES Lt. Brett Laitila. This is the fourth time is six years that the service has been successful in receiving AFG grants to help in purchasing critical fire and EMS equipment for citizens in the TTES response area, he said.