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The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station has a new temporary exhibit on display titled History in the Making: Texas A&M Forest Service.

BYERS, Texas –– Now owners of a recently converted military truck, Byers Volunteer Fire Department canmore efficiently protect its rural service area. The VFD received this retired military truck to convert into a firefighting engine through the DoD FirefighterProperty Program, established and managed nationally by the USDA Forest Service and implemented locallyby Texas A&M Forest […]

THORNTON, Texas –– Thornton Volunteer Fire Department recently filled a void in necessary equipment with aconverted military truck from the DoD Firefighter Property Program administered by Texas A&M ForestService. “We needed something that could get off the road and carry enough water so we wouldn’t have to come outof the field to refill the tank,” […]

GATESVILLE, Texas –– The Coryell City Osage Volunteer Fire Department now operates with a convertedmilitary truck thanks to the DoD Firefighter Property Program administered by Texas A&M Forest Service.The program, managed nationally by the USDA Forest Service, provides excess military equipment to firedepartments and emergency service providers. “Our area generally has a lot of brush […]

SKELLYTOWN, Texas –– Skellytown Volunteer Fire Department now has a new slip-on unitthanks to an $18,000 grant administered by Texas A&M Forest Service. “It is very rough country around here,” Fire Chief Vance Griffith said. “We are a very smalldepartment with very little funds, and the unit we had was getting old.” The VFD serves […]

GRAHAM, Texas –– Possum Kingdom Westside Volunteer Fire Department now has a convertedmilitary truck to use for on- and off-road firefighting, allowing them to retire an old 1983 modelengine. The VFD received the military truck through the DoD Firefighter Property Program, managednationally by the USDA Forest Service and administered by Texas A&M Forest Service. “Our […]

DE KALB, Texas –– With the help of Texas A&M Forest Service and a few local businesses, De Kalb Volunteer FireDepartment now has a service-ready converted military truck to put into use. The VFD received the truck through the DoD Firefighter Property Program, a program managed nationally by USDAForest Service and implemented locally by TFS. […]

GLEN ROSE, Texas –– A newly converted military truck will now serve the Somervell CountyVolunteer Fire Department, thanks to the DoD Firefighter Property Program “We were under-equipped for a fire district of our size,” Fire Chief Mark Crawford said. “We neededthis kind of vehicle to serve and protect our area.” The DoD Firefighter Property Program, […]

GROESBECK, Texas –– Groesbeck Volunteer Fire Department will now operate with a 5-tonconverted military truck awarded to them by Texas A&M Forest Service through the DoDFirefighter Property Program. “We only had one grass truck, and when that one was down, we could not respond,” retired FireChief Charles Bratcher said. “We have a lot of territory […]

Thanks in part to a $100,000 grant awarded by Texas A&M Forest Service,Dickinson Volunteer Fire Department now has a new brush truck to upgrade its capabilities. The VFD serves Dickinson corporate limits as well as the surrounding unincorporated area,equating to about 29,000 people and 12-15 square miles of territory. “We got a brush truck back […]