Texas Senate proposes measure to improve wildfire coordination efforts

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — As the Texas A&M Forest Service projects "extreme" or "very high" wildfire for a vast majority of the state on Tuesday, legislators met in Austin to discuss how to prepare Texas for the future of firefighting.
On Monday morning, the Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs discussed a bill to create a database of the inventory of firefighting equipment that is available for use in responding to wildfires. The inventory is to be maintained by the Texas