{"id":481773,"date":"2026-10-30T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:40:21","slug":"brazos-county-fire-departments-receive-90k-in-grants-bryan-college-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481773\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazos County fire departments receive $90K in grants | Bryan &#8211; College Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precincts 2, 3 and 4 of the Brazos County Volunteer Fire Department each received a $30,000 grant from the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service to help with the purchase of new personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The overview<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/tfsweb.tamu.edu\/texas-am-forest-service-awards-nearly-20-million-to-texas-fire-departments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">news release<\/a>, the Forest Service granted $19.6 million to 518 rural volunteer fire departments statewide to improve firefighting capabilities. This grant funding is the first for fiscal year 2026-27 under the <a href=\"https:\/\/tfsweb.tamu.edu\/grants-financial-assistance\/fire-department-programs\/volunteer-fire-department-programs\/rural-volunteer-fire-department-assistance-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M Forest Service program leader Merrie Noak said rural fire departments are extremely important for populations living in areas without access to city fire departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to strengthening our local responders across Texas by providing critically needed equipment and resources to save lives and protect property when it matters most,\u201d Noak said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/bryan-college-station\/education\/brazos-county-volunteer-fire-departments-secure-funding-from-texas-am-forest-service-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Community Impact<\/a>, the Brazos County Volunteer Fire Department received $300,000 from the Forest Service in June to secure new equipment and a large fire truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major takeaways<\/p>\n<p>The grants will help volunteer fire departments in Brazos County with expenses, covering hundreds of square miles. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brazosfirefighters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brazos County Firefighters Association<\/a> details the volunteer fire department areas:<\/p>\n<p>South Brazos County VFD: Allen Farm, Millican, Wellborn, Hwy. 6 South<\/p>\n<p>Brazos County District 2 VFD: city of Kurten, city of Wixon Valley, Edge, Tabor and Macey communities<\/p>\n<p>Brazos County Precinct 3 VFD: Steephollow, Harvey and Reliance communities, Hwy. 30<\/p>\n<p>Brazos County Precinct 4 VFD: Benchley, Smetana and Brushy communities, Hwy. 21 West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Precincts 2, 3 and 4 of the Brazos County Volunteer Fire Department each received a $30,000 grant from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77770,162388,8704,4534,162389,27,1887,29,28],"class_list":["post-481773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brazos-county","tag-brazos-county-volunteer-fire-department","tag-firefighting-equipment","tag-grant","tag-rural-volunteer-fire-departments","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-forest-service","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481773","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=481773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}