3-9-20 Chief Steve Solomon

Conway Fire Chief Steve Solomon hopes to use the FEMA grant to buy N95 masks. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)

CONWAY — A lot has changed since Conway Fire Chief Steve Solomon first applied for a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to assist firefighters amid the COVID-19 pandemic in early April.

Solomon learned Aug. 11 that the Conway Village Fire District received $2,714 out of $7.8 million in direct assistance grants to 340 fire departments nationwide through the agency’s FY2020 Assistance to Firefighters Grant COVID-19 Supplemental program.

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