Havre de Grace Ambulance Corps Awarded Federal Grant

HAVRE DE GRACE, MD — Several agencies in Havre de Grace received federal and state grants recently to support public safety. Among them are the Havre de Grace Ambulance Corps, Havre de Grace Police Department and Susquehanna Hose Company.

One Havre de Grace organizations was awarded federal funding, the Maryland congressional delegation announced this week.

The Havre de Grace Ambulance Corps was awarded $5,569.19.

“Maryland’s fire and rescue teams risk their lives every single day to protect our communities — and worked overtime to deliver life-saving care during the COVID-19 pandemic," wrote U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin as well as Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown and Jamie Raskin.

Using funding from the American Rescue Plan, the lawmakers said they would grant $1,201,379 to fire and emergency rescue departments across the Baltimore region.

"This new round of federal funding will provide our first responders with the supplies and equipment they need to keep Marylanders safe," the lawmakers wrote. "We will keep working to secure the federal resources that our fire and rescue departments need to serve our communities."