Haverhill to Use State Grant to Replace Water Distribution Valves on Fire Trucks

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The Haverhill Fire Department plans to use a $35,000 state grant to replace equipment on fire trucks.

Fire Chief Robert M. O’Brien was recently notified in a letter from Gov. Maura T. Healey and Lt. Gov. Kimberley Driscoll of the award from the state’s Firefighter Safety Equipment Grant Program. O’Brien said his department annually receives such grants and addresses the priorities of the time. This time, money will go to fire trucks.

“We’re replacing valves. They are valves for distribution of water. They are old and need to be replaced,” O’Brien told WHAV.

The grant comes from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the Department of Fire Services.

“With each new challenge, the fire service in Massachusetts demonstrates its ability 10 adapt, overcome and continue providing the excellent level of services that the citizens of the Commonwealth have come to expect,” wrote Healey and Driscoll.

The administration used the letter to remind communities they must follow a law that requires communities with, or near, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority service, to plan for multifamily housing. While Haverhill has an approved plan, the letter states, “compliance will be taken into consideration for future grant rounds, as it will be for all discretionary grant programs.”

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