Holton Recorder – August 7, 2013
Submitted by Newz Group Clipping Service – August 28, 2013
Netawaka Rural Fire District #6 has received a $1,750 fire prevention grant from FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, it has been reported.
FM Global representatives will be presenting the award to Fire Chief Jon Edwards and other Netawaka firefighters at the Netawaka Fire Station located at 333 White Way St. in Netawaka on Friday, August 9 at 7 p.m. The award will be used to assist with fire prevention activities in the community to help educate the community and reduce the number of fires.
Because fire continues to be the leading cause of property damage worldwide, during the past 35 years FM Global has contributed millions of dollars in fire prevention grants to fire service organizations around the globe. Locally, the company has awarded grants to a number of Kansas-based organizations.
“At FM Global, we strongly believe the majority of property damage is preventable, not inevitable,” said Michael Spaziani, manager of the fire prevention grant program. “Far too often, inadequate budgets prevent those organizations working to prevent fire from being as proactive as they would like to be. With additional financial support, grant recipients are actively helping to improve property risk in the communities they serve.”
Through its Fire Prevention Grant Program, FM Global awards grants quarterly to fire departments—as well as national, state, regional, local and community organizations worldwide—that best demonstrate a need for funding, where dollars can have the most demonstrable impact on preventing fire, or mitigating the damage it can quickly cause.
For more than 175 years, many of the world’s largest organizations have turned to FM Global to develop cost-effective property insurance and engineering solutions to protect their business operations from fire, natural disasters and other types of property risk. With clients in more than 130 countries, FM Global ranks number 541 among FORTUNE magazine’s largest companies in America and is rated A-plus (Superior) by A.M. Best and AA (Very Strong) by Fitch Ratings. The company has been named “Best Property Insurer in the World” by Euromoney magazine, “Best Global Property Insurer” by Global Finance magazine and was voted “Best Commercial Property Insurance” in Business Insurance’s 2010 annual Readers Choice Awards.
The Netawaka Rural Fire District #6 asks that anyone in the Netawaka Fire District that is in need of a new smoke alarm to contact them, as a significant portion of the grant proceeds will be used to provide new smoke alarms to local homes in need at no cost to residents.
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