The article highlights how actively the FEMA has played its role in the case of the wildfires in California and compared it to the other major disaster responses it has participated in recent years. Till the reporting of the news by NY Times, the FEMA has approved $12.7 million as federal assistance for survivors of the wildfire, a step that the FEMA is identified with when the governor of the affected states has to request FEMA for utilization of the federal resources (Nixon, 2018). The help has specifically reached the counties of Butte, Los Angeles, and Ventura, and the effort has been directed towards temporary housing, home repairs, low-cost loans for uninsured property loss, and along with that also assisted in the setting up of a disaster recovery center and shop for obtaining food, insurance claims, and other federal aids. FEMA is coordinating with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Defense Department (Nixon, 2018). While FEMA has to play an instrumental role in disaster response, it has been often criticized for not responding adequately or not being prepared in spite of being a “first and primary responder” (Nixon, 2018).