texas wildfires

Imagine 558 new fire trucks rolling into service — that’s what this massive funding is bringing to our local fire departments across Texas.

Texas faces another wildfire season, and big changes are coming to how we fight these blazes. It’s a fresh start with a new federal firefighting service.

Texas Panhandle ranchers can now apply for USDA’s $1 billion Emergency Livestock Relief Program to recover losses from recent floods and wildfires.

After months of restrictions, Randall County is ready to fire up the outdoor fun again.

Foresters at the Texas Forest Service say they have good news and bad news.  The good news is that because of an unusually wet winter and spring, the worst drought in the state's history has finally ended, in east Texas. The bad news is that many areas of the state are primed for another hot and dry summer.  Wildfire season is just around the corner, and the state and federal agencies that deal wi

The Texas Forest Service and local fire departments say despite the cooler weather, and a little rain here and there, the state's high fire danger hasn't gone away. Here in east Texas, conditions are dry as they've ever been, and the bans on outdoor burning are still in effect.

A Trinity County grand jury has indicted a man on charges of setting three separate fires in forest land in August and September.

We've known for some time that this year's wildfire season has been the worst in the state's history, but now we know what that means in dollars and cents for the east Texas timber industry. The Texas Forest Service reports over the last 10 months, east Texas wildfires have wiped out more than $97 million worth of the region’s trees.