U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been touring firehouses across New York state and meeting with fire chiefs to drum up support for the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. His goal is to restore full funding to the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program for 2007.

Schumer is also asking firefighters to join his call to restore funding by circulating petitions that call for restoration of the full $1 billion as authorized by Congress to the program. Schumer says he then will join with Senate colleagues later this year to support an amendment to the budget that would restore the full funding to the AFG program.

Interested parties can download copies of the petition in PDF format here. Signed petitions should be returned to:

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer
313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510