Malta City Fire gets $10,000 Town Pump Grant

The Malta City Fire Department was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Town Pump Charitable Foundation last week and the department couldn’t have been awarded the money at a better time.

“This is from the same place as the grant that the County Fire Department was awarded,” City Fire Chief Greg Boos said. “We applied for it a little earlier than the County did so after a community member called me and told me about it.”

Chief Boos and DeeDee Hanson from the Malta City Office filled out the needed paperwork, sent it off then sort of forgot about it.

“Then, about a week after the county got their a...