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Committee reviews requests for wildfire response, water rescue and emergency broadcasting funding
Summary
The committee considered funding requests for wildland fire capacity, urban search-and-rescue water teams and community radio emergency broadcasts; members emphasized capacity shortfalls after recent extreme weather and the value of local broadcast for emergency communications.
The House Committee on Government Operations & Military Affairs reviewed separate but related requests intended to strengthen emergency response and communications.
Committee members discussed a Wildland Fire Program package that includes capacity-building across the state; the committee noted one proposed vehicle could represent about $275,000 of a roughly $2.75 million package, but the budget language…
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