Mexican Rescue Team Joins Texas Flood Search

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1. Responders from Mexico help with Texas flood response

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2. Mexican volunteers cross the border to help Texas community devastated by floods

July 09, 2025
Asma Khalid
James Perkins Mastromarino

... Folks from around the world have gathered to aid the devastated community, including Mexican volunteers from Fundación 911 who crossed the border into Texas to help with relief efforts.

Ismael Aldaba, president of Fundación 911, said the group arrived Sunday morning after getting a call for help from a local fire department. So far, Aldaba said the search team has not rescued anyone who is alive.

" It looks like a bomb exploded,” Aldaba said. “There's trees that are huge laying down on their side. There's many that are snapped in half. A lot, a lot of damage” ...

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/07/09/mexican-volunteers-texas

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3. Firefighters from Mexico aid Texas flood search and rescue: 'There are no borders'

Tue 8 Jul 2025 16.20 EDT

A contingent of firefighters and first responders from Mexico arrived in Texas over the weekend to aid in search and rescue efforts following the devastating flooding of the Guadalupe River in a show of solidarity with their northern neighbors.

“When it comes to firefighters, there’s no borders,” Ismael Aldaba, founder of Fundación 911, in Acuña, Mexico, told CNN on Tuesday. “There’s nothing that’ll avoid us from helping another firefighter, another family. It doesn’t matter where we’re at in the world. That’s the whole point of our discipline and what we do.”

They represent one of a handful of volunteer groups, including highly skilled search and rescue teams from California, that have traveled to Texas after the flooding which is being described as one of the US’s deadliest floods in decades. Dozens of people are still missing ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/mexico-firefighters-texas-flooding-search-rescue

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