>>3844222 (pb)

Why Doesn't Texas have insane fires? We do, but we can control them. Because in Texas we have active mitigation teams doing controlled burns with choke points, constant assessment and reassessment of possible fire outbreaks. There have been 6 state emergencies this year from fires alone in Texas. We get them, but we have the plans in place to control and contain. California cut their budget for this when the Fed stopped giving aid because of the sanctuary state shit. Thank our great gov. Abbott for being such a solid forward thinker.

>>3844275

The threshold for State and Federal emergency status isn't the size of a fire, it's the dollar amount of damage. It's something like 30MM in damage to be considered a Fed emergency.

Unfortunately I don't imagine much monetary damage happening in Alaska, so that is probably why.

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>>3844288

Texas has one of, if not the best Emergency Management departments in all of the Union, since we have to deal with all of the normal emergencies, as well as holding off the worst Hurricanes across the country. We have been tried and tested over the years, and with that comes great mitigation knowledge. We are very proactive in our approaches to mitigation, and have boots on the ground assessing possible threats. FEMA often takes our approaches toward mitigation. We still have a lot of slack to cut off in terms of grants, bureaucracy, and local politicians fucking up and not properly funding rebuilding infrastructure, but we deal with it.

t. whole family works in tx dept. emergency management.

>>3844337

Federal Emergency grants only pay for public damages to roads/infrastructure. Any personal or business damages are handled at the State level.