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Arrowhead Ranch Estates Volunteer Fire Department received a cost share grant from the Texas A&M Forest Service Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance program. The grant was used to purchase a 2018 International water tender. The tender is replacing an older truck that carried less water. A tender, also known as a tanker in some regions, […]

GORDONVILLE, Texas — The Gordonville Volunteer Fire Department transformed a 2.5-ton StewartStevenson cargo truck into a firefighting machine. The excess military vehicle was awarded through theDepartment of Defense Firefighter Property Program (DOD FFP). The Gordonville VFD also accepted a$20,000 grant through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. This program currentlyprovides funding to rural volunteer […]

The Center Point Volunteer Fire Department doubles its water carrying volume by replacing a 1991 water tender. They added a new 2018 tender that carries 2,500 gallons of water and will help to increase the department’s firefighting capacity. The tender was purchased with a $200,000 cost share grant through the Texas A&M Forest Service Rural […]

The National Military Fish & Wildlife Association has awarded Texas A&M Forest Service the 2018 Natural Resources Conservation Management Conservation Partnership Award.

SCOTTSVILLE, Texas  Harrison County ESD #3 Fire Rescue converted a 2001 Stewart Stevenson 5-tonmilitary truck into a service-ready machine. The military vehicle will be used as a multipurpose, large brushtruck in wildland firefighting and high water rescues. “This large brush truck will be used as a dual-purpose vehicle,” said Harrison County ESD #3 Fire […]

The big, beautiful live oaks that line your street and shade your home aren’t indefensible. There’s a silent killer that at this very moment could be creeping down your block, one yard at a time. Considered an epidemic throughout Central Texas, oak wilt is one of the most destructive tree

Fire departments from across the state have provided firefighters and fire engines that have been stationed throughout the Texas Panhandle and West Texas for response to wildfires that have burned near 52,000 acres this year.

These maps show Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots from the 2006, 2011, and 2016 inventories. In East Texas, 20 percent of an inventory’s plots are measured each year, so for example, the 2016 inventory contains data collected from 2012 to 2016. The first annual inventory was completed in 2003. Since mortality is a change […]

SCOTTSVILLE, Texas — Harrison County ESD #3 Fire Rescue converted a 2001 Stewart Stevenson 5-tonmilitary truck into a service-ready machine. The military vehicle will be used as a multipurpose, large brushtruck in wildland firefighting and high water rescues. “This large brush truck will be used as a dual-purpose vehicle,” said Harrison County ESD #3 Fire […]

Higher-end critical wildfire conditions will be present over portions of Western Texas and the Panhandle tomorrow, March 18. There is a high probability of significant wildfire outbreak or a weather phenomenon called a Southern Plains Wildfire Outbreak.