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Union High Volunteer Fire Department received its first new brush truck with a $103,000 grant from Texas A&M Forest Service. The brush truck is equipped with a compressed air skid unit, something the department had not had access to previously. “This program is great because we operate mostly on fundraisers,” Fire Chief Leonard Mixon said. […]

LANEVILLE, Texas — Laneville Volunteer Fire Department updated its equipment with a $36,000grant for a new slip-on unit from Texas A&M Forest Service. The new unit comes stocked with a compressed air foam system and will help update thedepartment’s aging equipment, according to Fire Chief Samantha Cryer. “We had about $10,000 worth of repairs on […]

Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS) expects to release more than $43 million in remaining appropriated fire suppression funds back to the State of Texas this fall.

Labor Day is upon us and as we head outside to enjoy the last days summer, Texas A&M Forest Service urges Texans to celebrate carefully.

CRYSTAL CITY, Texas — Crystal City Volunteer Fire Department was awarded a $200,000 grant from theTexas A&M Forest Service to aid in purchasing a new tanker. The tanker was purchased through the Rural VFD Assistance Program, one of the many programs thatTFS offers to help improve and build upon the capacity of Texas VFDs. “Before […]

PARIS, Texas — For Lamar County Midway VFD, a new tanker is essential to better serve the southern part of thecounty. This is especially true since they previously relied on help from the northern half of the county for firerelief. A grant in the amount of $188,610 from Texas A&M Forest Service helped the department […]

CLEBURNE, Texas — Liberty Chapel Volunteer Fire Department recently updated one of its trucks with a new slip-on unitand small compressed air foam (CAF) system with the help of a $38,000 grant from Texas A&M Forest Service. The department previously purchased a new truck but wanted to put a larger tank and CAF unit on […]

ABILENE, Texas — A $155,000 grant from the Texas A&M Forest Service enabled Hamby VolunteerFire Department to upgrade from a 1984 model truck to a brand new tanker. “We applied for the grant so we could better the department and get newer and more modernequipment to serve our area,” Assistant Fire Chief Charles Tice said. […]

PORT ISABEL, Texas – For Port Isabel Volunteer Fire Department, a new tanker from the Texas A&MForest Service was necessary to help serve certain portions of the district that do not have access to firehydrants. The fire department struggled to serve some unincorporated areas of the city that had been experiencinga lot of grass and […]

The Nature Conservancy, Texas A&M Forest Service, and the U.S. Forest Service have collaborated to purchase a conservation easement on 4,785 acres of forestland in the Longleaf Ridge area of East Texas, permanently protecting some of the best longleaf pine habitat in the state.