Alexis Moriarty was driving through Comfort, Texas, when something beneath a bridge caught her eye. That’s when she saw it: a stuffed lamb lying alone in the mud.

This flood was the first time Comfort’s new siren system was activated. The county upgraded these emergency alerts back in 2024. Kendall County informed us that this cost roughly $70,000. A nonprofit paid $60,000 and Bandera Electric donated the poles.

The town of Comfort installed flood sirens after past disasters. In July, they helped every resident survive. View on euronews

The mission proved to be much more arduous than expected for her and her small crew of four, all of whom are first tour aviators.

After losing his grandfather in a flood decades ago, Comfort Fire Chief Danny Morales found grants for a warning system.

Among those offering charitable aid to those in need is a trained chef, cooking and serving food day in and day out at a fire department in Comfort.

Officials in Texas are facing questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm's way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed at least 120 people, including more than two dozen children and counselors at an all-girls Christian camp.

At least 24 people are dead after heavy rain lashed Texas, leading to "catastrophic" flooding. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said emergency responders remained in a search and rescue posture, hours after the flooding along the Guadalupe River inundated nearby areas.

A small Texas town that recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster had recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of setup state, county and federal officials