Foundations Unite to Help Castle Lake Ranch Volunteer Fire Dept. Buy New Engine

The Kronkosky Foundation, Peterson Foundation and Stevens Foundation came together to support Castle Lake Ranch Volunteer Fire Department in their purchase of a new fire engine last month.

The purchase could not have come at a better time as the spring season has arrived, bringing with it the possibility of grass fires - or as Bandera saw a few weeks before, fires due to human error.

“Castle Lakes is growing,” Chief Paul Miller said. “With that growth is the need to have equipment suitable for structure fires. We have assets to deal with brush fires and to provide water to fires, but we did not have a dedicated piece of equipment for structure fires.”