Federal government says no to aid for Arizona fire that killed 19 firefighters

[Sarah G]

How will the federal government replace those lives? It's a tragedy but not everything is disasterous enough for disaster relief. You wingnuts have to get over this and stop trying to pin everything on Obama.

This is just plain stupid.

No those lives cannot be replaced....we asked for help because of the flood danger that could wipe out what's left of Yarnell come Spring. It's not like we weren't promised the help from Biden at the memorial service for the fallen....we know you're nothing but a pack of liars only concerned when it's blacks or hispanics you can then get votes from. I was content to let Nawlins slip under the Gulf of Mehico after Katrina, yet I helped get aid there and sent money to the Red Cross. Don't worry about us....shove your FEMA up your ass.....we'll take care of our own.

This cannot in any way be compared to Katrina.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

Just chatting with a retired fireman conservative who says that if these volunteers put themselves in harms way and had no plan in place to take care of their families, they had no business being out there. And that their poor decision making is not a federal problem.

 

[JoeBlam]

How will the federal government replace those lives? It's a tragedy but not everything is disasterous enough for disaster relief. You wingnuts have to get over this and stop trying to pin everything on Obama.

This is just plain stupid.

No those lives cannot be replaced....we asked for help because of the flood danger that could wipe out what's left of Yarnell come Spring. It's not like we weren't promised the help from Biden at the memorial service for the fallen....we know you're nothing but a pack of liars only concerned when it's blacks or hispanics you can then get votes from. I was content to let Nawlins slip under the Gulf of Mehico after Katrina, yet I helped get aid there and sent money to the Red Cross. Don't worry about us....shove your FEMA up your ass.....we'll take care of our own.

This cannot in any way be compared to Katrina.

Yes we know...Katrina is another of your shrines to lies.....like the Kennedy "camelot" was really a story of drug use, getting us into Vietnam, and the murder of Marilyn Monre, Katrina showed us how totally inept democRATS are at managing anything. If the mayor and governor had fucked up the evacuation and response any worse, they could have been charged with negligent homicide. But instead you blamed it on BUSH....same as losing the election in Y2K.....that was the Supremes screwing you out of Gore stealing the WH....boo fucking hoo.

 

[Luissa]

well?

SNIP:

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer criticizes the Obama administration




(CNN) -- Arizona's top politicians blasted the Obama administration and federal officials over the denial of aid in the wake of the state's deadly wildfire.

The Yarnell Hill blaze killed 19 firefighters, called "hotshots," in late June, when it changed directions and engulfed them.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied the state's request for assistance based on insurance rules, it said in a statement Friday. It determined that not enough uninsured private individuals had become victims to warrant a payout.

FEMA said it is not permitted to "duplicate benefits provided by insurance companies or other federal agencies."

The agency also declined to issue a "major disaster declaration" for affected areas.

Solemn 100-mile procession for fallen firefighters

Fiery response

The decision drew criticism from Arizona's two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.



"We are disappointed that FEMA denied the governor's disaster declaration request for the Yarnell Hill Fire," they said in a joint statement. "It is a shame that FEMA couldn't find it within their mission to help rebuild their homes and lives."

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer directed her criticism directly at the president.

"I am deeply troubled by the Obama administration's decision to deny much-needed recovery assistance in the wake of Arizona's deadliest wildfire," she said in a statement.

In a phone call after the fire, President Barack Obama had pledged support, she said. She felt that he had now backed down.

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Federal government says no to aid for Arizona fire - CNN.com

Why should FEMA send additional money when the state and local gov't has enough resources to help the uninsured, and insurance money going to the people who were covered?
As for Obama sticking it to Brewer, FEMA helped with the costs of fighting the fire and FEMA doesn't help with every wildfire.

 

[JoeBlam]

Why should FEMA send additional money when the state and local gov't has enough resources to help the uninsured, and insurance money going to the people who were covered?
As for Obama sticking it to Brewer, FEMA helped with the costs of fighting the fire and FEMA doesn't help with every wildfire.

And you know the Yarnell area has "enough resources" how? There were over a hundred homes lost....the area has no ground cover left and could literally be washed away come the Spring run-off. Why did Obama and particularly that POS Biden who came here for a photo-op, PROMISE AID and and then not follow through? To screw us because we hate his ass for allowing thousands more illegals to stream across our state....he'll help California under the same circumstances because all he is is a side-show act....a carnival barker pretending to be president....a kenyan who's pulled the biggest okey-doke in the history of the USA......if the BLM would manage their fucking forest lands these fires couldn't happen....thanks for nothing, it's exactly what we expected from that bum.

 

[Snouter]

Sure Obama is a piece of shit and if black fireman lost their lives he and The Opra would be "doing the right thing" by cutting some checks (and trying to find out if the fire was racist). But the other underlying issue is miltary and foriegn aid. Billions goes to shitholes like the zionist regime, all the shitholes near the zionist regime paid and supported militarily to behave in a neoconish manner near the zionist regime, the hellhole called Haiti, etc. This is what is troubling, that the USA does not take care of its taxpaying citizens who are really "doing the right thing" day in and day out.

 

[Luissa]

Why should FEMA send additional money when the state and local gov't has enough resources to help the uninsured, and insurance money going to the people who were covered?
As for Obama sticking it to Brewer, FEMA helped with the costs of fighting the fire and FEMA doesn't help with every wildfire.

And you know the Yarnell area has "enough resources" how? There were over a hundred homes lost....the area has no ground cover left and could literally be washed away come the Spring run-off. Why did Obama and particularly that POS Biden who came here for a photo-op, PROMISE AID and and then not follow through? To screw us because we hate his ass for allowing thousands more illegals to stream across our state....he'll help California under the same circumstances because all he is is a side-show act....a carnival barker pretending to be president....a kenyan who's pulled the biggest okey-doke in the history of the USA......if the BLM would manage their fucking forest lands these fires couldn't happen....thanks for nothing, it's exactly what we expected from that bum.

Because I read the article.