 Upgrade your smartphone with Appalachian Wireless. Get $300 off selected models, capture memories, stream and stay connected with the latest technology. Visit one of our stores or AppalachianWireless.com right now. The Kentucky League of Cities presented the City of Pikeville with the 2023 Workers' Compensation Safety Grant July 6th for the Pikeville Fire Department. We spoke to Public Information Officer Nicholas Fleming about the impact the grant has had for the department. The grant is geared towards safety purposes so it's a 50-50 match. With that means we provide three grant and the Kentucky League of Cities provides three grant for us. So it's a total of 6,000 and the grant is geared more towards safety. So it's a multi-use grant. We bought some safety glasses for the members, helmets, some wildland equipment, shirts and things like that just to keep our members safe when they're out there doing doing the work that we have to do. In addition to new PPE the grant was used for additional rope rescue equipment including new ropes and pulleys. We're taught square one safety is the most important so if we get hurt we can't help anyone right so safety is our main priority for us and the individuals that we're going to help. So all of this equipment was purchased in that respect to make sure that we can stay safe. So again safety safety glasses helmets gloves things like that all this PPE personal protection equipment is what we call it is is again just to keep us safe so we can do the job that we're supposed to do. Reporting for Mountain Top News I'm Brianna Robinson.