We are grateful to Senator Jon Tester for sending the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) a letter to support our department’s application for an Assistance to Firefighter’s grant. Our department is trying to secure funds to replace an obsolete 1986 water tender that is no longer safe for service and is non-compliant with current firefighting standards. Water tenders are firefighting apparatus that transport water to the scene of a fire and are essential to our area given that we have no fire hydrants in our district.