CRANBERRY TWP — The Cranberry Township Volunteer Fire Company has been awarded an $836,046 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, or SAFER, grant.

Scott Garing, the township’s chief of fire and emergency services, told supervisors Thursday about the significant impact the grant would have on the fire company and the township.

“We’ve run a long road of several years of grant applications, but we finally got one,” Garing said. “And I’m excited to highlight what we can from this program.”

According to Garing, the SAFER grant is awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency “to help firefighting organizations maintain an adequate number of trained individuals, front-line firefighters, for their communities.