Gov't. Fire Suppression

With huge fires burning all through Texas (57 this week alone), some as big as 35,000 acres with over 500 homes destroyed, FEMA has finally arrived. Now that the government has it's people involved, a new problem is in play. Firefighters from all over the state and from all over the country (as far away as Alaska) are being told to go home. Apparently, the new rules are that if you don't have explicit permission from the federal government to help with putting out the fire, you cannot participate.
This is insane. There are hundreds of firefighters just sitting around because they are not allowed to bring in their equipment or people to halt these fires.
Meanwhile, as these fires continue to burn, over 1,000 homes throughout the state of Texas have been destroyed and the federal government hasn't done one thing other than stifle the firefighter's progress.
We all understand the animosity between Obama and Perry (Texas Governor). However, in such an emergency, Obama should put his anger aside and have declared Texas a disaster area and sent help and funds.
With enough people bitching about how Washington is dealing with this, eventually, Obama will have to allow some federal funds in order to "help his declining image".
This is just another example of how ineffective this present administration really is. With a President that has his ego on the line, one can only expect that his supporters will get freebies and anyone (or state) that opposes him will be denied any help whatsoever.
I thought he said that he was President of all the people, not just those that he selects...