NC Fire approves sole-source contracts

The North County Fire Protection District board approved sole-course contracts for self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and expanded incident command training.

Because both expenditures were funded by an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) award, the contracts were approved on the same 5-0 vote Feb. 19.

The agenda item covered two of the three subjects of the $351,477 AFG funding NCFPD received earlier this year from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s U.S. Fire Administration; the grant also funded power lift gurneys for the fire district’s paramedics operation.

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