 In the aftermath of the wildfire, students at Texas A&M University organized a "Wear White, Wave Maroon" campaign for a home football game against Baylor on October 15, 2011, with all proceeds from the sales of white T-shirts and maroon towels going to benefit volunteer firefighters as well as victims This fundraiser raised over $64,000, which was split evenly and donated to the American Red Cross of Central Texas and the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund.The Texas A&M Forest Service, with responsibility for fighting forest fires in Texas, did not have prepositioned fire retardant loading facilities to fuel the DC-10 and 747 firefighting units that arrived from California, resulting in the abandonment of their use during this fire.A portable air operations base for fire fighting aircraft was belatedly completed in 2017.