Thank the Firefighters, not Bush or FEMA. In Australia Firefighters are voluntary, because most of them know first hand, the destruction of which it is capable. That at any time a fire fighter, with a change of wind can be trapped, and be lost in the fire they are fighting. A blazing inferno is not something that anyone with conscience can order someone to enter. Anyone who is not prepared to enter a firefight of their own free will is a risk to the crew, and any firefighter knows this. It's one thing to thank god, but between god and any fire, is the willingness of a firefighter to risk, even sacrifice their lives.
Politics and bureaucracy is an unwelcome meddler. When it sees a Fire it wants to plan. Firefighters know there is no longer any time for plans. Actions are needed, at what ever cost. Or people will die.