Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell.

Texas countered a mammoth flood last week, but thanks to the new emergency siren system in one of the towns, it helped save several lives. Comfort, in Kendall County, experienced the same catastrophe but reported no casualties,

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.

Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

Multiple parts of Central Texas, including Kerr County, were shocked by flash floods Friday when the Guadalupe River and others rose rapidly.

Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the Empire State building downstream roughly every minute it remained at its crest. The force of floodwater is often more powerful and surprising than people imagine.

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.

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