By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

Carrboro is not quite midway through an effort to add 15 firefighters, a move necessary to fully staff its new northern fire station. It’s been a costly effort and six new positions added in the past two years constituted a major portion of the town’s personnel cost increases.

This year, that effort continues, but thanks to a $314,262 SAFER grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency the cost to the town of bringing on the next batch of hires will drop. For the first year, the grant will pick up 90 percent of the cost of hiring three new firefighters.

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