Justin Rubio woke up in the hours of the wee for an alert on the thood of his phone, thunder, siren and helicopter blade – one from the beginning of one The biggest rescue operation in Texas historyRubio was determined to become a part of it.
Even Ker County officials have repeatedly discouraged civil volunteers, Rubio and dozens of others on Monday went out to search for missing people after the flash flood in the fourth weekend of July in the fourth weekend of July.
The feelings were wrapped in disaster, who killed more than 100 people – and urged to help find people – sometimes have been beaten against the needs of officers for the structure and safety of the authorities because they search 60 miles with Gwadalup River,
The river increased by the size of a two -storey building in less than an hour on Friday. A survivor described the “death pitch-black wall”. The floods reduced the coastline, ripped down trees from the ground, threw and disappeared crushed vehicles, disappeared buildings and swept through A century old summer camp packed with children,
Rubio, who picked up on Monday through the organs of the torn tree, said he could not help, but in the pitch.
“It’s sad. It eats your soul, it eats in your heart,” he said. “I can’t sit at home just thinking what is happening here.”
Volunteers say, there is a Texas tension of solidarity, and authorities have appreciated donations and volunteers in other areas.
When it comes to discovery and rescue, however, fickle weather and a flash flood warning Sunday afternoon extended the possibility of officials that unorganized volunteers could miss or die themselves.
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Workable discovery continues
On Sunday and Monday, the authorities began to close more search sites for volunteers, instead directed them to a local Salvation Army.
“We need focus and coordinated volunteers, not random to show random people and do what they do,” the Mayor of Kerville Joe Herring Junior said. “We are hopeful at every leg, every mile, every turn of the river.”
Some families are disappointed at the pace, but the authorities are asking for patience with the width of the search area and methodically, without stopping approaches. It is a comprehensive operation with 19 separate local and state agencies, drones, dogs, boats and helicopters.
Authorities have placed a grid on the search area. Each section can reach more than a mile and move between one and three hours for search, the city manager of Kerville said at a news conference on Monday morning.
Rice repeated for volunteers to “stay out of the way”, so the first respondents are not sure that the volunteers “are not suffering themselves.”
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Some volunteers go somewhere else
When the volunteers were asked by the official respondents to leave the sites in Kerville, some on Monday went to help the unirrigated community of the center point to help, the Cord Shiflets said, who ralled volunteers through Facebook posts.
On Sunday, the shiflet had falsely claimed on Facebook that two girls were rescued in a tree after the flood, but they said on Monday that they received bad information and apologized.
The mistake made US rape chip. Chip Roy’s attention attracted, which represents the field and urges people to be careful about false news.
“This is not appropriate for families and it distracts law enforcement,” Roy posted on social platform X.
At the center point on Monday, dozens of undivided volunteers including Rubio and Brian Dton gathered in the afternoon heat. Datton, an experienced, who said that he had friends at an RV camp affected by floods, waiting to work in the draws of residents who came out to help food and provide food.
“We do what we can do,” Datton said. “This is how Texas is.”
