Texas flood death toll rises
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Emergency crews have suspended their search for victims of catastrophic flooding in central Texas amid new warnings that additional rain will again cause waterways to surge.
Another round of heavy rains is drenching central Texas with “life-threatening flash flooding,” according to the National Weather Service, forcing first responders in Kerrville to suspend search-and-rescue operations looking for the remaining missing after the deadly floods that took place last week.
New reporting reveals multiple urban search and rescue teams from across the country that responded to the deadly floods in central Texas told CNN that FEMA did not deploy them until days after any victim had been found alive.
NEAR LENANDER, Tx. ( WALA) - Alabama Task Force One, or AL-TF1, posted on its Facebook page Saturday that crews have begun work in flood ravaged parts of Texas. AL-TF1, along with state partners Saraland Fire and Tuscaloosa Fire (AL-TF5), continues its efforts to traverse the Big Sandy Creek area near Leander, TX.
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Officials in Kerr County, where the majority of the deaths from the July 4 flash floods occurred, have yet to detail what actions they took in the early hours of the disaster.
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard are sharing powerful stories from recent flood rescues in Central Texas. One rescuer recalled spotting a young girl in the back of a rescue vehicle, tears streaming down her face.