(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba Water Agency Board of Directors yesterday approved doubling the funding for Bill Shaw Rescue Equipment and Training for first responder agencies in Yuba County, from $10,000 to $20,000 each year.

The program launched seven years ago and has resulted in $408,000 total in grants awarded to Yuba County’s first responder agencies.

A release from Yuba Water notes: “In 2017, Yuba Water employee Bill Shaw was involved in an accident while on the job at one of the agency’s more remote facilities. Even before returning to work, Shaw played a key role in pushing forward the Rescue Equipment and Training Grant Program, which was named in his honor. His
vision was to support the responders that saved his life, as well as
those that Yuba Water relies upon during incidents. “