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Fire Dept. Gets $1.5M Grant For Heart Monitors

BALTIMORE (AP) -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a nearly $1.5 million grant to the Baltimore Fire Department to buy 75 monitor/defibrillators.

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant was announced by fire officials on Wednesday. The equipment will enable paramedics to detect and treat life threatening cardiac emergencies quickly.

(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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