The closed Winfield Volunteer Fire Department received $18,000 in state funding.

Volunteer fire departments throughout Butler County will receive a total of $1 million in the release of $55.1 million in state volunteer fire relief funding announced by Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, including the Winfield Volunteer Fire Department, which closed in August.

The Winfield VFD's relief association is listed as the recipient of $18,000 even though supervisors voted Aug. 30 to close the department and switch fire service coverage to the Herman, Saxonburg and Buffalo Township fire departments.

Adams Hartwig, Winfield Township secretary, said Thursday that the relief money will be split between the three fire departments covering the township.

He said Saxonburg and Buffalo Township fire departments will receive 40 percent each, and Herman 20 percent.

When the supervisors voted to close the township fire department in late August, they also enacted an ordinance that allows the township to split among the three recognized fire departments any funds allocated for or donated to the Winfield department.

Hartwig said he will send the township resolution to close the fire department to DePasquale's office so the staff knows for future reference that the fire department no longer exists.

A complete list of the disbursements to county fire departments is available at www.paauditor.gov/vfra-allocations

This is an excerpt — read the full report in Friday's Butler Eagle.