Hart VFD recently received a grant enabling the department to acquire a 2022 Freightliner brush truck. Hart VFD is an intricate part of fire safety, not only in Hart, but in the county with Dimmitt VFD and Nazareth VFD being called out to grass fires, residence fires as well as answering calls to car and truck crashes.
The Castro County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received four 911 calls reporting a major two-vehicle accident on Jan. 12. Then collision occurred on N Hwy. 385 next to the North Star Dairy. No injuries were reported. Vehicles involved were a blue 2018 GMC SUV driven by Jenifer Michelle Goforth, 43 of Amarillo, and a 2001 Peterbuilt semi-truck driven by Arnulfo Hernandez, 23 of Muleshoe. First responders included the Castro County Sheriff’s Office, AMR EMS, Dimmitt Fire Department; and TX DOT.
The Hart Volunteer Fire Department of Castro County received a $220,000 grant from the Texas A&M Forest Service Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program to purchase a large brush truck.
The 2022 Freightliner has a 1,500-gallon tank.
The primary function of the brush truck will be to fight brush fires, and to provide mutual aid assistance to departments in surrounding counties. It will …
