{"id":149487,"date":"2011-12-14T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=149487"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:31:55","slug":"states-wildfire-area-expanded-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=149487","title":{"rendered":"State&#8217;s Wildfire Area Expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=149488\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-149488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/thumb_firefighters-12-150x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_firefighters-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-149488\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN (AP) \u2014 FEMA has expanded the wildfire disaster area in Texas. It has granted the state&#8217;s request to make 119 counties eligible to seek disaster help. FEMA also extend the incident period from April 6, 2011, through August 29, 2011. The original declaration issued by FEMA on July 1, 2011, covered wildfires between April 6, 2011, and May 3, 2011, and only included 45 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Counties included in the expanded major disaster declaration can receive up to a 75% reimbursement for eligible expenses. Among the counties which were granted Category B Public Assistance (Emergency Protective Measures) are: Anderson, Cass, Harrison, Houston, Morris, Panola and Rusk.<\/p>\n<p>Since the governor&#8217;s initial statewide disaster proclamation on December 21, 2010, Texas has responded to more than 26,000 fires that have burned more than 3.9 million acres. The governor&#8217;s office says state and local response costs over the last year top $330 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 FEMA has expanded the wildfire disaster area in Texas. It has granted the state&#8217;s request to make 119 counties eligible to seek disaster help. FEMA also extend the incident period from April 6, 2011, through August 29, 2011. The original declaration issued by FEMA on July 1, 2011, covered wildfires between April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=149487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State&#8217;s Wildfire Area Expanded<\/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-149487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 03:54:15","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\/149487","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=149487"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149801,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149487\/revisions\/149801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}