Grant program offers boost as rural fire departments battle recruitment challenges

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Plantersville-Stoneham Volunteer Fire Department sits across from the town’s Baptist church on F.M. 1774 and is otherwise surrounded mostly by pastureland. The community, a quiet railroad town in southern Grimes County, measures its population in the hundreds. But Plantersville isn’t isolated. The nearby Texas Renaissance Festival draws thousands of ...

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