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Clarification & Documentation Needed for Yanceyville Fire Payments to Move Forward

Payments to firefighters delayed until language and process is further refined

Shannon Moretz

Shannon Moretz

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Clarification & Documentation Needed for Yanceyville Fire Payments to Move Forward
Photo courtesy of the Town of Yanceyville / The Yanceyville Fire Department depends on volunteer firefighters. Consultants say the Town will need more documentation before it can use local funding to provide payments to those firefighters for responding to qualifying incidents.

In February, the Yanceyville Council approved a motion to use local funds to replace an expired FEMA Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant that provided funding to support firefighter response on qualifying incidents (fire calls, heavy equipment operations, and rescue calls) at a rate of $20 per firefighter, per incident and $15 per hour for firefighter training, up to a maximum of 36 hours.

Payments were to be made retroactive to January 1, 2026.

During the April 7 meeting of the Council, the Town Manager reported that the NC Fire Chief Consultant had recommended two key updates that should be implemented before the Town begins processing those payments to firefighters.

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