Arizona Senators Kirsten Cinema and Mark Kelly announced that more than 340,000 people participated in wildfire training and planning.
Infrastructure investment and employment Led by Sinema and developed by Kelly, legislation provides more than $340,000 to enhance wildfire training for firefighters and implement local wildfire protection plans
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WASHINGTON – A total of $341,217 will be invested to strengthen bipartisan Arizona wildfire prevention efforts Infrastructure investment and employment Legislation led by Senator Kirsten Cinema and enacted by Senator Mark Kelly.
The investment was awarded to the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to enhance wildfire training operations and implement the 2022 Gila County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for 24 months.
“We are proud that our bipartisan infrastructure law will support Arizona’s firefighters, strengthen Arizona’s wildfire prevention efforts, and protect Arizona’s families and communities as we head into wildfire season.” Infrastructure investment and employment law.
“Thanks to the wildfire prevention funding we set aside under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, today’s investment will provide much-needed resources for training and operations ahead of this wildfire season,” Senator Kerry said. I will give it to Gila County.
Today’s investment funds are implementing Gila County’s 2022 Community Wildfire Protection Plan. It identifies high-priority programs to reduce wildfire risk to communities, including subject matter expertise training for firefighters.
The Cinema and Kelly Infrastructure Act provides $3 billion to implement a 10-year plan to combat wildfires in Arizona and across the country. In his four significant restoration and mitigation projects: the Museum Fire Deposit Reduction Project, Flagstaff Watershed Conservation Project, Coconino National Forest Kuragin Watershed Conservation Project, and Tonto National Forest Cooperative Forest Restoration Project.
ever since Infrastructure Investment and Employment Law was signed in November 2021, providing more than $211 million for wildfire mitigation, resilience and forest restoration in Arizona.
Cinema led bipartisan Senate talks with Republican Ohio Senator Rob Portman, which included Senators from both parties, as well as Senator Kerry.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is governed by the American Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Association of American Manufacturers, AFL-CIO, Federation of American Retailers, Bipartisan Policy Center, Building Workers Union of North America, Outdoor Industry Association, American Hotel Lodging Association, National Education Association, hundreds of mayors in all 50 states.
