Vance Fire Department

Vance Fire Department, located in Vance, South Carolina, is a non-profit organization registered with SAM.gov since March 2015 that provides emergency response and firefighting services to its local community. The department has established itself as a recipient of federal grant funding to enhance its operational capacity and emergency response capabilities. Through federal grant awards, Vance Fire Department receives funding to support infrastructure improvements, equipment procurement, personnel staffing, and training initiatives that strengthen its ability to protect the public and its own personnel from fire and fire-related hazards.

Vance Fire Department has received three prime federal grant awards totaling $763,989.58 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) across two distinct grant programs. Most recently, in December 2025, the department was awarded a $489,000 grant under the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant Program (CFDA 97.083), which will fund the hiring of new firefighters and support recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters through a four-year project period ending in December 2029. Additionally, the department received two awards under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program (CFDA 97.044): a $103,790 award granted in August 2024 for critical infrastructure, equipment procurement, training, and safety improvements with a completion date of August 2026, and a prior $171,199.58 award from September 2022 focused on firefighter safety training and equipping first responders, which concluded in September 2024. All awards have been funded directly by FEMA HQ Financial Assistance Awards, and the department has not engaged prime or sub-contractor partnerships in these grant awards.