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The NVFC received a $3,000 fire prevention grant recently from FM Global, a leading property insurer of the world’s largest businesses based in Johnston, RI. The award will be used to assist with fire prevention activities, including the efforts of Fire Corps to help educate the community and reduce the number of fires.

 

“FM Global is passionate about fire prevention, and so is the National Volunteer Fire Council,” said NVFC Executive Director Heather Schafer. “This grant will do a lot of good in terms of fire prevention. We are very grateful to FM Global for awarding us this grant.”

 

Because fire continues to be the leading cause of commercial and industrial property damage worldwide, FM Global has contributed millions of dollars to fire services and related agencies around the globe working to prevent fire for more than three decades.

 

“At FM Global, we believe the majority of property damage is preventable – not inevitable – and we are pleased to make funding available to organizations like the National Volunteer Fire Council that share the same philosophy,” said Michael Spaziani, manager of FM Global’s Fire Prevention Grant Program. “After all, it’s much better to prevent a disaster than to recover from one.”

 

FM Global’s highly competitive Fire Prevention Grant Program (www.fmglobal.com/grants) 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 greatest impact on preventing, preparing for, and controlling fire in the community.

 

Established nearly 175 years ago, FM Global (www.fmglobal.com) ranks 766 among FORTUNE magazine’s largest companies in America. More than one out of every three FORTUNE 1000 companies and similar-sized organizations operating in more than 130 countries work with FM Global to develop robust property insurance and engineering solutions to protect their business operations from property risk. The company has been named “Best Property Insurer in the World” by Euromoney magazine and “Best Global Property Insurer” by Global Finance magazine. The company is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best and AA (Very Strong) by Fitch Ratings.