{"id":129413,"date":"2011-09-29T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=129413"},"modified":"2011-09-30T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T21:21:13","slug":"lawmakers-visit-lufkin-to-discuss-wildfire-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=129413","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Visit Lufkin to Discuss Wildfire Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=129414\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-129414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/09\/lufkin_fire_091111-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lufkin_fire_091111\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-129414\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLUFKIN \u2014 Two Texas congressmen visited with county judges, officials and first responders from the Deep East Texas region in Lufkin on Wednesday in an effort to improve the federal government\u2019s response to disasters. That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Lufkin Daily News.   U.S. Rep. Michael T. McCaul (R-Austin), chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management, is investigating whether FEMA\u2019s response was fast enough after fires broke out this month in several areas of the state.  He was joined by Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of my role is to examine these fires that took place in the state of Texas and provide the oversight on how we can do these things better. I\u2019ve been all over the state of Texas talking with local people about the response to these fires, and Bastrop was the one that was most devastating. But we can do a better job,\u201d McCaul said. \u201cIt took a Bastrop to get these aviation assets into the state. It shouldn\u2019t have taken that long. What I\u2019ll be examining is FEMA\u2019s response \u2014 why we didn\u2019t get those aviation assets sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gohmert said the meeting with area county judges was productive and that the information learned would be taken back to Congress.  \u201cWhen you have people from the counties that have been most affected by the wildfires, they know what good things have been done and they also know what the problems are,\u201d Gohmert said. \u201cYou also get valuable input from the folks here on how we can streamline things, to get help immediately where it needs to go, so we can reduce the amount of suffering that goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u2014 Two Texas congressmen visited with county judges, officials and first responders from the Deep East Texas region in Lufkin on Wednesday in an effort to improve the federal government\u2019s response to disasters. That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Lufkin Daily News. U.S. Rep. Michael T. McCaul (R-Austin), chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=129413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawmakers Visit Lufkin to Discuss Wildfire Response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 19:08:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129413"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129762,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129413\/revisions\/129762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}