A grant recently received by the Butler Township Police Department will allow for the purchase of new life-saving equipment.
Chief John Hays informed the Township Commissioners that his department applied for and was awarded a nearly $12,000 grant from Firehouse Subs.
The money is being used to purchase nine Automated External Defibrillator (AED) machines to replace ones currently in use by the department that have reached the end of their usefulness.
Several Township administrators traveled to Ohio last month for a Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation grant ceremony in which the money was presented.