"According to Malliotakis, the largest amount of money - $5 million - will go toward renovating a building on Staten Island that will be used for EMS classroom training. The exact location was not immediately clear. Currently, personnel must travel to either Randall's Island or northeastern Queens for training, requiring them to be placed out of service and unavailable for duty during those sessions."
""We have a growing city around us, and Staten Island is no different. As we continue to operate at normal levels, our whole volume continues to go up across our city," shared Bonsignore. "So this helps us start to continue our pathway of modernization. We have to grow and modernize like the rest of the city.""
Staten Island will receive $9 million in federal funding to modernize local firehouses and establish an Emergency Medical Services training center. Representative Nicole Malliotakis secured the funding through the congressional appropriations process. The largest portion, $5 million, will renovate a Staten Island building for EMS classroom training to reduce travel to Randall's Island or northeastern Queens and keep more personnel in service. The new center will handle larger class sizes and ongoing training. An additional $2 million is allocated to Squad Company 8. FDNY leadership emphasized the need to modernize as call volumes rise.
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