The county commissioners of any county may appropriate annually funds to lawfully organized or incorporated county or regional firemen's associations to establish, equip, maintain and operate and may themselves establish, equip, maintain, and operate fire training schools or centers for the purpose of giving instruction and practical training in the prevention, control and fighting of fire and related fire department emergencies to the members of paid fire departments and volunteer fire companies in any city, borough, town or township within such county.
Whenever a firemen's association is comprised of residents of two or more counties or contemplates operation of a regional school in two or more counties, the county commissioners of each county may appropriate funds to the association.
16 P.S. § 1952