U.S. Senate passes Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich (D) and a local company are praising the passage of a bill to keep firefighting planes in the skies. The United States Senate cleared the Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act, which reauthorizes the Defense Department to sell excess planes to be used as suppression tankers, as well as aircraft parts to maintain fleets.Rio Rancho neighbors push back against golf course redevelopment plansThe bill reauthorizes an earlier act passed b