 At Audiology Associates at Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Thursday, members of the Johnson County Fiscal Court joined at Highland Elementary School to announce $200,000 in funds for first responders in the form of equipment and other needs. During the event, Mountaintop spoke with Judge Executive Mark McKenzie about the announcement. But we're providing funding to our volunteer fire departments, 9-1-1 Emergency Management Services, our Sheriff's Office. We're providing funding to all of those folks, some additional opportunities that have arisen in the last few months that we can help them to further their services to our community. With funds from the American Rescue Act and COAL Severance, funds will go towards needs such as CPR machines, a new communication system for the Johnson County Sheriff's Department, and $10,000 for Johnson County's volunteer fire departments. We are getting our funding for two of them, one from the county of Johnson and one from the city of Painesville. And we've got grant applications for another one, so there'll be three total in the near future. This is extra for their organization, and that means a lot. On the self-contained breathing apparatus grant, there was a 5% match that each fire department had to make, and of course the judges provided funding for that. So those two items alone is a big help and a big boost for all of our fire departments in Johnson County. Currently we are dealing with an analog system. Communication in parts of our county are difficult now. There's not enough coverage. We have upgraded or in the process of upgrading to a system that requires two towers with this communication grant that has been presented to us through the fiscal court. We will have a microwave link between the two towers, which will allow us to have a system that should be able to have good coverage throughout the entire county. Well the good thing about this is that we've got the flexibility to get whatever our particular needs are. We have needs for swift water rescue, we have needs for wild land firefighting, like a lot of the departments in the area. We've been out a lot these last couple of days, so there are hand tools and different types of hose and equipment we may need for that. So we're just going to have to sit down as a group as our officers of the department and set some priorities and determine what would be the best route to go with this funding. Also included was $50,000 that will go towards moving the county's 9-1-1 center to a new building. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Korgel.