{"id":438117,"date":"2026-09-16T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:54:10","slug":"texas-am-forest-service-awards-655000-for-panhandle-volunteer-fire-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438117\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M Forest Service awards $655,000 for Panhandle volunteer fire departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service has awarded $655,000 in grants to Panhandle volunteer fire departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, the Forest Service provided funding to nonprofit volunteer fire departments for firefighting vehicles, fire and rescue equipment, protective clothing, dry-hydrants, and firefighting training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The following departments have each been awarded $25,000 for fire and rescue equipment: <\/p>\n<p>Happy VFD Dalhart VFDFritch VFDLake Tanglewood VFDStratford Fire Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lipscomb Volunteer Fire Department and Memphis Fire Department have each been awarded $265,000 large brush trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Forest Service says the program also provides grants for volunteer recruitment and emergency assistance following catastrophic events and declared states of disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service has awarded $655,000 in grants to Panhandle volunteer fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57642,151519,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-438117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-factory","tag-industrial-production","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}