Texas wildfire

TrooperBari · Sep 8, 2011

Lieslntx said:

Football_Bat said:

Stitch said:

I guess the feds will have to come to Texas' rescue.
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FEMA is tapped out and any disaster relief for a governor who once publicly refused federal funds would have to be approved by ... the Tea Party House.

Irony is delicious.
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Wow. Wow.
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In poor taste, but not wrong.
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/texas-cut-fire-department-funding-by-75-percent-this-year/

Under Gov. Rick Perry (R) this year, Texas slashed state funding for the volunteer fire departments that protect most of the state from wildfires like the ones that have recently destroyed more than 700 homes.

Volunteer departments that were already facing financial strain were slated to have their funding cut from $30 million to $7 million, according to KVUE.

The majority of Texas is protected by volunteer fire departments. There are 879 volunteer fire departments in Texas and only 114 paid fire departments. Another 187 departments are a combination of volunteer and paid.

For that reason, aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could be more important than ever to the state where wildfires have recently been raging.
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