City Council will review the Fiscal Year 2016 budget to consider authorizing the $239,000 Assistance to Firefighters Grant and the purchase of a mobile training tower today.

The DeKalb Fire Department was awarded a $239,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency called the Assistance to Firefighters Grant, to purchase a mobile training facility, but DeKalb must first approve to match the grant with $21,727,30. The budget will need to be amended before Sunday if the council wishes to accept the award, according to today’s City Council meeting agenda.

Jeff McMaster, DeKalb deputy fire chief, said the fire department applied for the grant in November and was notified of the award in late August.

“We received a phone call from Congressmen Adam Kinzinger advising us that we had received the grant,” McMaster said.

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant helps meet the emergency and responses for fire departments and medical organizations, according to the FEMA website. If the grant is approved at today’s meeting, the fire department will receive a custom mobile training tower from mobiletrainingtowers.com.

“It’s embedded on a truck and can be heightened, hydraulically lifted and the total stories is four-and-a-half stories,” McMaster said. “It has an interior staircase inside. It has full lighting on the interior and exterior.”

Firefighter trainees can use this facility to practice different scenarios, such as going through crawl places, breaking down doors and moving hoses up and down stairs.

“The nice thing about it is that it’s mobile, so we can move [it] to different fire stations as well,” McMaster said.