UNDER SIEGE

摘要

When it comes to wildland/urban interface (WUI) fires and wildland fires, 2011 will go down in the history books as one of the worst years on record for the state of Texas. According to media reports, at one point in the year, fire spread from one end of the state to the other. On December 21, 2010, Texas Governor Rick Perry declared a State of Disaster and renewed the proclamation every month in 2011. By July, the Texas Forest Service (TFS) had responded to a total of 12,512 fires. And by Sept. 6, Texas had suffered through 294 consecutive days of wildfires. At that time, the total acreage of grass, scrub and forest burned in the United States had reached 7.2 million-almost half of which was located in Texas.