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CORPUS CHRISTI (KIII NEWS) - The Port Aransas Fire Department received a new fire truck thanks to volunteer efforts of the Helping Hands program, an extension of the Texas A&M Forest Service. "This is really part of that process of rebuilding," said Tom Boggus of the Texas A&M Forest Service.

www.capjournal.com

From a chair at the sweepingly large windows in the new $2 million Aircraft Rescue and Fire-Fighting station, Cory Hoffrogge can see for miles across the Pierre Regional Airport to the eastern, northern and southern horizons. ARFF is a federal acronym, he says with a sort of grimace that makes it clear he wouldn't have chosen it.

CBC

If a fire breaks out in Shamattawa First Nation, community members and leaders say there is little they can do but watch it burn. The isolated northern Manitoba First Nation, 745 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, has been repeatedly ravaged by arsons but has had no operational fire truck or hall since September.

Brattleboro Reformer

BRATTLEBORO - Fire officials are urging the inclusion of a $950,000 aerial ladder truck in the budget, but Select Board members remain skeptical of the cost. "For me, I really have to look at the working poor that are really just getting by around here," board member John Allen said at a meeting Tuesday.