SYCAMORE- The Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program awarded the Sycamore Fire Department a federal grant in the amount of $235,598.17 on Aug. 26. The grant will be used to replace the department’s four ambulance stretchers and to install stretcher loading systems in each of the department’s four advanced life support ambulances. .
Pike County Judge-Executive Ray Jones and other county and state officials have been assessing the damage through the weekend from the devastating flash flooding that struck the county last week,