The Hawai‘i State Department of Land and Natural Resources will receive $2,485,308.00 in federal funding to support improvements to the Pohakuloa Training Area’s (PTA)  response to wildfires.

The funds are intended to construct a new firefighting and conservation warehouse to improve wildfire response and enable the maintenance and repair of firefighting vehicles.

The U.S. Army Garrison’s PTA is a member of the Big Island Wildfire Group and agrees to team up with local, state and other federal firefighting units, and when called upon can dispatch dozens of pieces of apparatus, aircraft and firefighters to take on wildfires.

Photo credit: PTA