The grant, awarded under the 2015 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, will pay for a video equipment that will connect all the departments together for training, meetings and emergency operations, fire Capt. Johnnie Phelps said.

“We’ll have the entire infrastructure put in, all the servers, the gateway, all that stuff, the eagle eye cameras in the classrooms that follow the instructors around and eight departments will all receive those in their stations that will tie them into us,” Phelps said.

Anniston fire Chief Tony Taylor said each department pledged a percentage to match if they received the grant.

“There is a 10 percent match,” he said. “So we’ll get an additional $35,000 bringing the total grant up to $389,375.”