The Austin Firefighters Association plans to hold a vote of no confidence in Fire Chief Joel G. Baker following his failure to deploy emergency teams to Kerr County ahead of the deadly July 4 floods. The decision follows growing outrage that Baker did not respond to the state's request to send Austin's specialized units, reportedly due to an $800,000 reimbursement delay from past state deployments.
A CNN panel criticized partisan figures who immediately seized on Texas’s flash‐flooding disaster for political objectives, urging focus on prevention and response, not point‑scoring.
A 26-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer is being hailed as an American hero after saving 165 lives during his first-ever mission—responding to the devastating Independence Day flash floods that ravaged Central Texas. Petty Officer Scott Ruskan, a former KPMG accountant from New Jersey, deployed to the flood-hit Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp, where he played a key role in triaging and evacuating victims.
Houston pediatrician Christina B. Propst has been terminated after posting a politically charged message on Facebook targeting residents of Kerr County, Texas, following devastating flash floods. In the now-deleted post, Propst suggested the victims “got what they voted for” due to their past support for President Donald Trump and Republican-led disaster relief policies.
Two young sisters were found dead, still holding hands, after flash floods swept through Central Texas early Friday morning. Blair Harber, 13, and her sister Brooke, 11, from Dallas, sent a final message to their family at 3:30 a.m. before the rising waters carried them away from a house in Hunt to where they were found 15 miles downstream in Kerrville.
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.
