@scATX I think looking at the facility that caught fire/exploded would be more helpful, not the vol/pro FF question. (Last tweet!)

@scATX Just thinking of things. A professional FF (capt in Dallas FD) died in the blast while he was volunteering in West.

@amaditalks In Texas, it would likely be funded via property tax or sales tax (for an ESD). I don’t think a county can collect sales tax.

@amaditalks @megerman @scATX all that said, I haven’t seen anything to suggest results would be diff if all professionals were on site.

@amaditalks @megerman @scATX Travis County even has at least one ESD that is either volunteer or mixed vol/pro.

@amaditalks @megerman @scATX But have to consider size of county and resources to cover entire area. Worse in less pop western TX.