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2. Mexican volunteers cross the border to help Texas community devastated by floods
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:09 PM
Jul 2025

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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