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Built to cut through steel, the Jaws of Life extrication tool helps firefighters free people from mangled cars andburning or collapsed buildings. Steele Creek Acres Volunteer Fire Department received a $9,000 grant from Texas A&M ForestService. The grant has improved the department’s ability to purchase key rescue tools needed for auto and confined space rescues. […]

One hundred communities across Texas are receiving a special delivery of 100 trees in honor of Texas A&M Forest Service’s centennial year, capping off a full year of celebrating the agency’s commitment to conserve and protect Texas’ trees and forests.

Firefighters and apparatus from across the state mobilized to assist with fighting fire and protecting homes in Bastrop County on the Hidden Pines Fire that ignited last Tuesday.

Texas A&M Forest Service has called in a DC-10 air tanker to help battle the wildfire raging through Bastrop County. The tanker can drop close to 12,000 gallons of retardant at a time, spreading a swath three-quarters of a mile long and 500 feet wide.

Quitman Volunteer Fire Department recently received a $100,000 grant to go toward the purchaseof a small brush truck through Texas A&M Forest Service’s Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. The truck, a 4-wheel drive Ford F-550, went into service on Sept. 12. “We ran about six calls that day,” Director of Fireand Safety Administration Gary […]

Killeen, Texas — Southwest Bell County Volunteer Fire Department recently received an $18,000 grant from Texas A&MForest Service to purchase a new slip-on unit. It will be used on a truck chassis they received from a 2003 TFS grant. The slip-on unit is already in use and was recently used to fight a brush fire. […]

Caring for Texas’ trees takes hard work and dedication. At this year’s Texas Tree Conference over a thousand tree care professionals gathered in Waco to learn from national leaders in research, commercial and utility arboriculture and urban forestry.

Members of the Elm Grove Volunteer Fire Department were recently presented with a grant check of$100,000 by Texas A&M Forest Service. The funds are part of the Rural VFD Grant Assistance Program, which went toward securing a new brush truck for thedepartment. “Our first truck was a 1988 Ford one-ton with a skid unit and […]

Paducah Volunteer Fire Department recently received a $15,000 grant from TexasA&M Forest Service to purchase new rescue equipment through the Rural Volunteer Fire DepartmentAssistance Program. The equipment included new power and rescue tools for auto extrication and other emergencies. “The new, lighter equipment allows one person to do the job freeing up others for things […]

Roxton, Texas—The Roxton Volunteer Fire Department recently received a grant from the Texas A&M Forest Service to purchase a new brush truck. “The grant helped us replace an older 1995 truck. The new truck has four-wheel drive and a wildland deck gun/ monitor on the front bumper. It also carries 800 gallons of water that […]