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Senate committee hears bill to make DNRC fast-attack wildfire program permanent
Summary
Supporters told the Senate Natural Resources Committee that House Bill 127 would make a two-year DNRC fast-attack wildfire response program ongoing, add an annual reporting requirement, and preserve state-controlled aviation and mapping resources used to find and suppress small fires before they grow.
House Bill 127 would make permanent a two-year pilot that funded Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) "fast attack" ground and aviation resources and would add a reporting requirement, proponents told the Senate Natural Resources Committee. Representative Lou Jones introduced the bill.
The bill builds on last session's House Bill 883, which created a two-year program DNRC used to contract helicopters, a heavy air tanker and incident-awareness aircraft. Sean Thomas, division administrator of the Forestry and Trust Lands Division at DNRC and the state forester, told the committee, "By enabling more effective initial attack on wildfires, we prevent larger, more…
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