WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The President yesterday
declared an emergency exists in the State of Texas and ordered Federal aid
to supplement State and local response efforts in the area struck by
wildfires beginning on March 14, 2008, and continuing.
The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster
relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and
suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide
appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under
Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and
public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a
catastrophe in the counties of Anderson, Andrews, Archer, Armstrong,
Atascosa, Bailey, Bandera, Baylor, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque,
Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Callahan,
Carson, Castro, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin,
Collingsworth, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Crane, Crockett,
Crosby, Culberson, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Delta, Denton, Dickens, Dimmit,
Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fisher,
Floyd, Foard, Frio, Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Gonzales, Gray,
Grayson, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Haskell,
Hays, Hemphill, Hidalgo, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard,
Hudspeth, Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells,
Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney,
Kleberg, Knox, LaSalle, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Liberty, Limestone,
Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Mason, Maverick,
McCulloch, McLennan, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills, Mitchell,
Montague, Montgomery, Moore, Motley, Navarro, Nolan, Nueces, Oldham,
Orange, Palo Pinto, Parker, Parmer, Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Rains,
Randall, Reagan, Real, Reeves, Refugio, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk,
San Saba, Schleicher, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall,
Sutton, Swisher, Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green,
Travis, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Walker, Waller, Ward,
Washington, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson,
Winkler, Wise, Young, Zapata, and Zavala.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at
its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts
of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct Federal
assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.
R. David Paulison, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Kenneth G. Clark as the
Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the
affected area.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-4600.
SOURCE White House Press Office
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