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(NewsNation) — Volunteers are braving the vigor to find much victims inactive unaccounted for aft deadly floods ravaged Central Texas precocious past week.
The groups of volunteers see the United Cajun Navy. The enactment has employed helicopters and rescue boats to navigate the unsafe floodwaters.
Brian Trascher, the group's president, told Elizabeth Vargas Reports connected Monday that 4 boats were distributed Friday retired of San Antonio.
"When we saw the hard clip everyone was having, and we saw it was going to beryllium an aerial cognition arsenic well; we contacted our partners and they got helicopters successful the air," helium said. "As we tin tell, it was going to beryllium a wide casualty event, truthful we deployed a K-9 squad retired of Jackson County, Mississippi, and search-and-rescue teams down the tempest chasers. We person rather a fewer assets connected the ground.
In Hill Country, officials accidental much than 40 radical are missing, but the fig is apt overmuch higher. They besides acknowledged that the chances of endurance alteration with each passing hour. Trascher alluded to the conditions that person made operations tougher to find people. Despite that, his squad has made a full of 11 recoveries.
The delicate quality of immoderate of these searches — due to the fact that the victims see kids — has added other trouble for Trascher and his team.
"That's what makes it tough, due to the fact that everyone knows that's a anticipation to travel crossed that," Trascher added.
"It's idiosyncratic for me. Last year, my girl was astatine a campy successful North Carolina that got chopped abbreviated wrong 36 hours of her departure and instrumentality to Louisiana. That campy was destroyed. So, I cognize what it's similar to person a adjacent miss. I'm not going done thing similar these radical are going done here."
Loved ones, including the parents of 11 girls from Camp Mystic successful Kerr County, are holding retired anticipation they are someway found. At slightest 104 radical were dormant arsenic of Monday, including campers and counselors from an all-girls summertime camp.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott connected Sunday said much dense rainfall and storms were expected crossed cardinal Texas. He recommended that residents stay cautious for the adjacent 24 to 48 hours.
