Firefighters salute the flag draped casket holding Greg Simmons as he is carried to a waiting fire truck at the conclusion of funeral services for the fallen firefighter in Olden, Texas, Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Simmons was killed responding to a wildfire. (AP/LM Otero)
The Obama Administration sent aid to Mexico to battle a 386 square mile fire but refused to consider the 2.5 million acre fire in Texas a disaster area.
KTRH reported, via Free Republic:
Just last month the U.S. sent two Air force cargo planes to help Mexico battle back wildfires in the northern part of it’s country, fires that burned 386 square miles. It’s a move that West Texas Congressman Francisco Canseco (R-Fort Stockton) thinks is a hypocritical one by the Obama administration as Texas has requested the same sort of federal aid but has been denied it.
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