A STATE POLICE HELI JOINED UP ON A STATE FIXED WING ACFT CAUSING A LITTLE HATE AND DISCONTENT.

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IN SUM: A PLT; FLYING A BELL 206 B III FOR THE TEXAS DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY; WAS CALLED TO A FIRE AREA TO PERFORM PATROL; OBSERVATION; AND COMMAND POST WORK. AFTER A NEWS AIRPLANE AND A FORMATION OF USAF TRAINING JETS FLEW THROUGH THE AREA; THE RPTING PLT ASSUMED THAT A RESTR AREA HAD BEEN FORMULATED BY SOMEONE ELSE OVER THE FIRE AREA WHEN IN FACT ALL THAT HAD BEEN DONE WAS FOR AN AGREEMENT WITH SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE TO KEEP ITS ACFT OUT OF THE AREA. THE RPTING PLT WAS FALSELY INFORMED THAT A RESTR AREA HAD BEEN FORMULATED BY NOTAM. ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRE; THE RPTING HELI PLT CHASED DOWN A PIPER CHEROKEE FLOWN BY THE TEXAS DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION. THE RPTING PLT JOINED UP ON THE CHEROKEE AND FOUND THAT THE CHEROKEE HAD OFFICIAL BUSINESS IN THE AREA CHKING ON SOME OF ITS ROAD GRADERS. LATER THAT EVENING; THE RPTING PLT RECEIVED A CALL FROM SOMEONE IN ZFW STATING THAT ZFW HAD RECEIVED AN ANONYMOUS CALL FROM A PF FOR ANOTHER STATE AGENCY COMPLAINING ABOUT AN ACFT JOINING UP ON HIM TO FALSELY STATE THAT THE ACFT HAD NO BUSINESS IN A RESTR AREA. THE ANONYMOUS CALLER INFORMED ZFW; WHO INFORMED THE RPTR; THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO NOTAM ISSUED FOR THE FIRE AREA.