Last week, near Bastrop Texas, a wild fire burned nearly 34000 acres, 600-1000 homes, and killed at least 2 people. It's been in national news all week. But no one is talking about the many fires that have been sprouting up all around Austin lately due to our drought, and watering ban. About one week prior to this fire, a rather large(but small in comparison) fire raged west of Bastrop on 8/5/2011. It was put out within a day by small aircraft with payloads of water and retardant.
Why then did the fire last week get so out of control? There were places where embers actually flew over the Colorado river and ignited brush on the other side. After Fukushima and a flooded nuclear power plant(Fort Calhoun)which also lost cooling due to a fire, our government would be a little more proactive. The Bastrop fire was within 5 miles of Sim Gideon Power Plant. While not a nuclear power plant, losing it could tax the infrastructure beyond limits. All this after requiring Texans to participate in mandatory blackouts.
So, let me get this straight.
A.Smaller planes carrying retardant could have put the fire out before it raged out of control?
B.After getting big enough to require a DC-10 Tanker, it still wasn't deployed due to
"delays in preparing the fire-retardant mixing facility" at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport?
C.Even though this was "the most destructive single wildfire in Texan history," the DC-10
tanker was sent to Houston before complete containment of the Bastrop Fires?
Is FEMA responsible? Did they tell Texas Fire Fighters to Stand down?
Do you think that Rick Perry will Be more concerned with the American people, and less concerned about his pointy
boots if he's elected president? The Gulf oil spill was Obama's Katrina. This is Rick Perry's Katrina. At least Obama, and Bush became president before 'not doing their job.'
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