{"id":322756,"date":"2026-08-16T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322756\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:38:09","slug":"arno-foundation-launches-first-responder-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322756\/","title":{"rendered":"Arno foundation launches first responder grant program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The friends and family of <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/public-safety\/2023\/03\/01\/crews-battling-large-fire-on-main-street-in-buffalo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fallen Buffalo firefighter Jason Arno<\/a> are honoring his legacy by helping his colleagues across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Firefighter Arno Memorial Foundation held its annual cookout at Buffalo&#8217;s River Fest Park on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the foundation announced plans to help the Canandaigua Fire Department buy life-saving equipment through the Arno Act grant program. It aims to\u00a0provide financial assistance to first responders.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation also says it is giving money to Erie County&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve met so many people across different departments, whether it&#8217;s professional firefighters, volunteer firefighters, corrections [or] emergency medical services, and to see all these groups of people in one place to bring the community together is a beautiful thing,\u201d James Fierro, president of the Firefighter Arno Memorial Foundation, said.<\/p>\n<p>Arno died during a fire in Buffalo&#8217;s Theater District\u00a0in March 2023. The cause of the fire was eventually ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p>In May of this year,\u00a0the city of Buffalo settled a civil lawsuit with Arno\u2019s estate for nearly $5.9 million, to be paid out over the course of three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The friends and family of fallen Buffalo firefighter Jason Arno are honoring his legacy by helping his colleagues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,308,115,380],"class_list":["post-322756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-rochester","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}