During the first round one of the 2012 Staffing For Adequate Fire & Emergency Response Grants or commonly known as the SAFER Grant, the Immokalee Fire Control District received $736,920.00 to hire back 6 firefighters. Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue District also has applied for the same grant again in 2012. On May 28, 2010 Lehigh Acres Fire received the second largest SAFER grant in 2010 for $8,971,851.00