This ^^^
You can hate on the bureaucracy/red tape BS (no matter what politico is in charge) but not on the teams themselves. The people know what they are doing and how to get it done.
My daughter has lived in Mexico for the past 7 yrs and it's always a good time talking with fellow brothers when visiting down there. Early 2000's some of my department's reserve rigs and other equipment were driven down to Baja and donated to the Cabo FD.
Wasn't just the boy counselors at La Junta that did such a great job, these two girl counselors are not getting enough love...
And our fellow Bomberos to the south of us...
A little more about the first crews on scene....2:44 of your time.
Perfect responses regarding the team effort by all. Semper Paratus 🇺🇸 👏
(and in case you weren't aware, the rescue swimmers for TXTF-1 are civilian firefighters from throughout the state. Most from AFD & SA Fire, but also from Travis ESD's, Houston and Dallas. Though not as much as CG Rescue Swimmer, it's still an extensive process to become a swimmer for the Task Force. The Guard crews and aircraft are from Mabry (ABIA) and Martindale)
She was luckily found on that first morning. Unfortunately tomorrow morning will be the reaching of the 72hr/ 3day mark, survivability drops off after that. Most likely won't be made "official" tomorrow, but rescue ops will soon be changing to recovery. Sucks. 😢
There is LIVE coverage on Youtube right now from KSAT12 (also another channel from WOAI) , reporting from Seguin now but also covering the hill country.
I was part of the Wimberley group, and my wife and I went other days as well.
Best thing to do is just show up. You can either sign up and be put somewhere or just go help folks on your own. Long Lines and organization can be haphazard so we went out on our own and found an older couple (in their 70-80's ) and helped them all day. Not why we did it but we got an invite to their 4th party a few months later.
It's still a rescue situation and not yet a recovery op. Known victims would be gotten to first with a quick, deliberate flights. What you described above are active search patterns.
Finding adults (even harder kids) in brush or trees in flood waters takes time and slow, deliberate, repetitive flight paths.
Reports of blackhawks ( and if so, no doubt the TXTF1 birds out of Austin and SA) along with Travis County STARFlight and TX DPS.
Pretty sure this is one of the DPS birds hoisting below...(lower left corner video)
Watched Top Gun Maverick again this afternoon and noticed that Admiral "Iceman" Kasansky's wife was also Uncle Buck's niece Tia Russell,... Jean Louisa Kelly.
Those games did mean more.
There was no interleague play back then and free agency hadn't taken full effect yet. players played the same team (or almost) for the entirety of their career. Switching leagues was also not common. The ALL Star game really pitted the best of each league and it was important to show which league ( at least for a night ) had the better players and format ( no DH in NL).... The National League DOMINATED the 60's-'87, losing only 4 games in that span and a streak of 11 straight from '72-82.
Kind of grainy but both of those throws are in the video/ X post in my reply above. Funny how guys thought they could run on Parker. His arm is right up there or above with Clemente, Bo, and Ichiro.
Rifleman. RIP Cobra
Went down there this past week to visit the daughter before her and her family move back to Cancun. Great visit with some awesome food and sightseeing the Zocalo, halls of Montezuma, and a sunrise over the pyramids.
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