Texas Forest Service News

Texas Company Turns Trucks into Wildfire Fighters

Could icemakers be next? Most of the options on the brush fire trucks made at Texas-based Steele Fire Apparatus fall into the category of things you might expect. Light towers, electrical inverters, pumps for hydraulic tools, that sort of thing. …

Texas Crews Working to Prevent More Davis Mountains Fires

Texas Forest Service crews are beginning work to remove hazardous vegetation in the Davis Mountains resort area of West Texas to try to prevent a repeat of one of the state’s largest-ever wildfires two years ago. On Feb. 4, teams …