Texas governor issues disaster declaration as wildfires grow in Panhandle
nbcnews.com
The fires in the state that aren't yet contained include a 250,000 acre blaze burning in Hutchinson County.
A nuclear weapons facility in the Texas Panhandle said it had evacuated some staff Tuesday amid wind-fueled wildfires that covered thousands of acres and prompted the governor to issue a disaster declaration.
The Pantex Plant, which handles nuclear weapons, said it was monitoring the situation but that there was no fire on the plant site. All weapons were safe and unaffected, the facility said.
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Lmao imagine saying FEMA aren't assholes
Name one time that FEMA was an asshole? I would love to know. FEMA distribution gets fucked up by district politics, but I assume you are saying that FEMA activily told a group of people to go fuck themselves.
Here's a fantastic article to get you started:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1004347023/why-fema-aid-is-unavailable-to-many-who-need-it-the-most
Ten years and thousands of comments later for forest fire management assistance after one of the historically worst ever forest fires in the region
https://oaklandnorth.net/2015/12/15/preventing-the-next-oakland-hills-firestorm-will-a-controversial-fema-plan-to-cut-eucalyptus-reduce-the-danger/
Articles about multiple failures of FEMAs part in response to Katrina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4331330.stm
FEMAs ridiculously slow response to Katrina:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050907073458/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,0,6429273.story?coll=chi-news-hed
FEMA sent hundreds of volunteer firefighters to Atlanta for sexual harassment training instead of to help with Katrina
https://web.archive.org/web/20080220133708/https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-07-firefighters-ga-katrina_x.htm
How difficult it was to work with FEMA and other federal resources instead of local assets
https://web.archive.org/web/20071201100623/http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/Publications/KatrinaContinuingStorm.pdf