{"id":9724,"date":"2012-05-02T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2012-05-02T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:08:12","slug":"fema-approves-funds-for-battling-west-texas-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/02\/fema-approves-funds-for-battling-west-texas-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Approves Funds for Battling West Texas Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9728\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Two fires in West Texas this week have burned over 24,000 acres.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/112553838.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9728\" title=\"Wildfires Continue To Burn In Texas\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/112553838-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/112553838-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/112553838.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Tom Pennington\/Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two fires in West Texas this week have burned over 24,000 acres.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved funds to help battle two large wildfires in West Texas that have been burning for more than a week. The request for the funds came from the state.\u00a0The approval means FEMA funds can pay 75 percent of eligible state and local costs for fighting the wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Forest Service says two fires at the Livermore Ranch Complex have burned over 24,000 acres. The complex is nearly two hundred miles southeast of El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger of the two fires is near the Davis Mountain Resort, where about 150 residents live. That fire was said to be about 30 percent contained as of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Forest Service unveiled a new online tool that allows users to find the wildfire risk in their area. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaswildfirerisk.com\/\">You can view it here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em>KUT&#8217;s Laura Rice contributed reporting to this post.<\/em><\/h5>\n<h4><strong>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/01\/first-major-wildfires-of-2012-tear-through-west-texas\/\">First Major Wildfires of 2012 Tear Through West Texas<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved funds to help battle two large wildfires in West Texas that have been burning for more than a week. The request for the funds came from the state.\u00a0The approval means FEMA funds can pay 75 percent of eligible state and local costs for fighting the wildfires. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":9728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[97,157,158],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9737,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}