State Official Calls For Creation Of Airborne State Firefighting Division

The state's top emergency manager says Texas should create its own firefighting aircraft division. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, made the suggestion on Tuesday to a panel of state lawmakers at a meeting in the town of Pampas, near Amarillo. A series of recent wildfires devastated the Panhandle, and lawmakers investigating the fires decided to hold the hearings in Pampas so victims of the fires could more easily attend them.