Texas floods: death toll rises as search and rescue turns into grim recovery operation | Texas floods 2025
Residents in the center of Texas died on Sunday and prayed for one day for others who were missing in the destructive flash flood on Friday, because a search and rescue operation for survivors began to turn into a terrible exercise of the rescue organs.
Relatives, San Antonio’nun provider before the dawn of the rain on Friday morning 45 minutes after 26FT (8 meters) rising from the Guadalupe River drowned with the flash flood of 11 girls and a camp consultant continued to wait for the news.
At least 59 people were killed in Kerr County, many children. More deaths are reported in neighboring districts.
Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said to journalists about a news briefing on Sunday, “We see that the bodies have healed up and down.”
Authorities, search and rescue operation, more than 1,700 people, including about 850 people, said.
Until Sunday morning, the water levels had fallen to one or two feet before the flood.
Until Saturday and Sunday morning, more rain prevented the crew’s search efforts using boats, helicopters and drones. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the respondents will remain at the scene until each individual recovered. He said that the intervening people are still alive.
The US Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in Texas in front of Donald Trump and signed a federal emergency statement that would release additional resources to support local efforts.
Noem, at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, defending the federal reaction to the disaster, “relief will come” promised. However, questions about the actions of some of the Trump administration believed that it could contribute to the violence of the incident.
In particular, harsh budget cuts affecting the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) separated from many important air forecribing offices, including the National Weather Service (NWS) Austin-San Antonio Office.
Authorities defended the service on Sunday and insistently the warnings warnings Pre -Published. However, some inhabitants said they did not take them – Patrick from Teğmen’s Lieutenant Governor accepted Fox News on Sunday. And the first NWS estimate searched for 3-6 inches of rain-not intense downpour that triggered the severity floods.
Washington Post reported This 1.8tn Gallon Yağmur fell to the Texas Hill country with Kerrville and the Edwards Plateau on Friday morning.
44 -year -old Matthew Stone from Kerrville said the police knocked on the doors, but did not receive any warning on her phone.
“There was no emergency warning. Suddenly there was nothing until I became a pitch -black death wall”.
Republican Texas Congress member Chip Roy, which includes Kerr County, said that the actions taken before and during the market press conference will be examined.
“There will be too many fingers, there will be too much second guess,” he said. “There are many people who say ‘why’ and ‘how’ and I understand it.”
Texas Emergency Management Decision Chief Nim Kidd said on Friday that early NWS estimates did not predict the amount of rain we see ”. His comments, before the dawn warnings of the warnings, “Camp Mystic, such as camps such as camps and people should provide enough time to provide safety,” he said.
Meanwhile, NWS employees’ Organization Legislative Director Tom Fah said to CNN that the service of Texas of Texas is “sufficient personnel and resources”. Nevertheless, the Austin-San Antonio office said that a warning coordination meteorologist, which is an important connection between NWS and emergency managers, is missing.
A NOAA official, the network, the void, with a few other important roles, Trump’s second presidency in January after the early retirement incentives, the White House, he said.
Abbott said he visited Camp Mystic, a popular Christian summer withdrawal for young people on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt late on Saturday.
The camp, which participated in more than 700 girls during the flood, was invaded with a water torrent, which was initially missing 27. According to the authorities, as the death money climbed to Sunday, the number that was missing from there fell to 11.
Sarah Marsh, an eight -year -old girl from Alabama, Mountain Brook, in the camp, Saturday was found deadby friends “”Column of the community”.
“He and the river running next to him, unlike I saw it in any natural disaster, was terribly destroyed, Ab Abbott said, after visiting the rescue teams and Camp Mystic remains.
“The height of the rush water reaching the top of the cabins was shocking. We will not stop until we find every girl in these cabins.”
The identities of the more killed were known on Sunday, because the survivors shared extraordinary stories about how they survived.
Two children from Dallas, 13 -year -old Blair Harber and 11 -year -old sister Brooke were among the approved of the dead by the Catholic High School officials they attended. They stayed in a cabin by the river with their lost grandmother and grandfather.
Rj Harber, who stayed with his wife in a adjacent cabin, told CNN to CNN that Blair was “a talented student and a generous heart ve and Brooke was like a light in any room, people withdrew and enjoyed them”.
High school football coach Reece Zunker and his wife Tina were among the victims of Kerr district. Kerryville Daily Times Report – And two children are lost.
The newspaper also defined Teacher Jeff Wilson Among the victims, his wife Amber and his son Shiloh were not calculated.
Authorities in Burnet district Khou told TV A local fire department is between three deaths there.
Associated Press contributed to this report
