The Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS) Grant Assistance Program provides reimbursement grants to career fire departments and combination fire departments with 21 or more paid members. The program provides firefighting apparatus and training tuition reimbursement grants.
Those eligible include:
- Career fire departments that have no volunteer members and that are staffed with paid members only.
- Recognized part-paid, part-volunteer fire departments operating on a not-for-profit basis, having 21 or more paid members.
- Fire departments eligible for grants under the Rural VFD Assistance Program are not eligible for grants under the TIFMAS Grant Assistance Program.
Paid members are calculated based on the number of full-time paid and part-paid positions. Two part-paid positions are equivalent to one full-time paid position.
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