{"id":55167,"date":"2025-02-04T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=55167"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:51:42","slug":"otten-presents-east-brandywine-fire-co-with-94k-state-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=55167","title":{"rendered":"Otten presents East Brandywine Fire Co. with $94K state grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20298\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20298\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2365-2025-02-03_12-39-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, East Brandywine Fire Co. Trustee Joe Edwards, Ron Miller, East Brandywine Fire Co. Treasurer Ken Ader, Rep. Danielle Friel Otten, Greg Kohlmaier, and Dr. Robert Nye.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State Rep. Danielle Friel Otten on Friday presented $94,000 in state grant funding to the East Brandywine Fire Co. for the purchase of new rescue equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fire company will use the funds to outfit a new rescue vehicle with a Res-Q-Jack kit and battery-powered rescue tools, which will free up existing equipment for use on other vehicles in the fleet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe communities served by East Brandywine Fire Company have experienced significant growth over the past several years and continue to grow at a rapid pace,\u201d said Otten, D-Chester. \u201cThis new equipment will help East Brandywine Fire Company continue to provide high-quality emergency services to keep up with the increased need. I commend East Brandywine for their hard work and dedication to keeping our neighbors safe, and I am glad we\u2019ve been able to help fulfill this funding request.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grant was funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe support of the state representative to our emergency services is second to none,\u201d East Brandywine Fire Chief Vince D\u2019Amico and East Brandywine Fire Co. President John Edwards said in a statement. \u201cThis funding will be instrumental in our ability to provide high-quality emergency services to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">East Brandywine Fire Co. provides firefighting and other life safety services to the communities of East Brandywine, West Brandywine and Upper Uwchlan townships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Danielle Friel Otten on Friday presented $94,000 in state grant funding to the East Brandywine Fire Co. for the purchase of new rescue equipment. The fire company will use the funds to outfit a new rescue vehicle with a Res-Q-Jack kit and battery-powered rescue tools, which will free up existing equipment for use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15944,5743,12652],"class_list":["post-55167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-east-brandywine-fire-co","tag-grant","tag-state-rep-danielle-friel-otten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55168,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55167\/revisions\/55168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}