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Johnson City VFD awarded grant for new radios
From left to right, are: Steve Dyer, LCRA governmental affairs representative; Clint Harp, LCRA chief of staff; James Dildine, Johnson City VFD president; Mike Guthrie, VFD captain; Sheri Holmes, VFD secretary; Craig Thetford, VFD firefighter; George W. Russell, LCRA Board member; Roy Burdett, VFD chief; Tessa Schmidtzinsky, PEC representative; Rick Arnic, LCRA governmental affairs representative; and Lori A. Berger, LCRA Board member.
The Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department will buy 20 new handheld, two-way radios with a $23,169 community development grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority and Pedernales Electric Cooperative. Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Roy Burdett said the department has long needed the radios, but their price put them out of reach. “We just didn’t have money for the new communication systems the federal government requires emergency responders to have,” Burdett said.
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