The Oakland Fire Department will hire 35 new firefighters this year under a $27.4 million federal grant, Chief Reginald Freeman says.
The grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is intended to improve or restore staffing and deployment capabilities, the department said in a statement.
"This award will give us some much-needed fiscal relief over the next three years as we continue working to get our staffing capacity to appropriate levels," Freeman said.Get a weekly recap of the latest San Francisco Bay Area housing news. A class of 32 graduated from the department's lateral fire academy on May 5, with plans for a class of 40 new recruits starting in the fall, the department said.
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