The Texas Forest Service, through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, has awarded the Sunrise Beach Fire Department/Llano County ESD 5 a 95% matching funds grant in the amount of $265,000 for the purchase of a new Large Brush Truck. The 2025 State Legislature authorized a total of $192 million in additional funding to address previously unfunded requests, including a long-standing request from the Department. 

The new brush truck will enhance the Department’s capacity to respond to grass, brush and wildland-urban interface fires more effectively. The new truck will be built to Texas Forest Service standards, with delivery expected to take 12 to 18 months.

Four other departments in Llano County also received grants, as did three departments in Burnet County and one department in Blanco County.

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