Village helps fire department with Irene losses

B y Jaime Thomas

During the 36 hours members of the Granville fire department spent outside during Tropical Storm Irene, some of their equipment got pretty wet.

In fact, enough got soaked to result in a loss of more than $16,000 worth of radios, pagers, road cones, flashlights, rope, and other technical equipment, Chief Ryan Pedone said of the August 2011 storm.

“We didn’t run it through our insurance, we ran it through FEMA, but we realized the money never came,” Pedone said.

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