Republican lawmaker Rep. August Pfluger (TX) announced that he was reunited with his daughters in the aftermath of the Texas floods. His daughters were evacuated from Camp Mystic.
In what rescuers are calling a miracle, a woman from Midland, Texas, was found clinging to a tree after being swept 20 miles downstream by the flooded Guadalupe River on Independence Day. The woman, camping with family near Hunt-Ingram, was caught in rising floodwaters that overtook their vehicle as they attempted to flee to higher ground.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump issued a forceful warning following the ambush shooting of a Texas police officer near the Prairieland Detention Facility. The officer, from the Alvarado Police Department, was shot late Friday night while attempting to confront an armed suspect outside the federal detention site.
A 27-year-old father in Ingram, Texas, gave his life to save his fiancée, children, and mother during a catastrophic flash flood on Independence Day. Julian Ryan suffered a fatal arm laceration while breaking a window to help his family escape rising waters from the Guadalupe River.
A deadly flood struck Kerr County, Texas, on Independence Day, leaving at least 24 people dead and 23 girls missing from a Christian summer camp near Hunt. The flood, triggered by torrential rain along the Guadalupe River, turned deadly in the early morning hours as waters rose over 26 feet in just three hours.
