
The United Cajun Navy is in Texas helping with the search and rescue operation in the Texas Hill Country, where more than 100 people have been killed in flash floods. So far, United Cajun Navy searchers have found 11 bodies. Vice President Brian Trascher says they have sent people with very specific backgrounds to the scene.
“We’ve relied on what we call ‘special ops volunteers,’ pretty much all combat veterans who can emotionally and mentally handle what it takes to, if you have to, come across a deceased child. That’s not something that anybody can handle that doesn’t have that kind of experience,” Trascher explained.
Trascher says rain in the area has subsided; and thus, the rivers are fairly calm.
“You still have a lot of valleys that the river overflowed into, that now just look like ponds. We’re searching in a lot of those places, because we know that the water rushed over all those spots and has a potential for victims to be there,” Trascher said.
Trascher says the United Cajun Navy will remain in Texas until officials there say they have everything under control.
” The state and federal response has been very quick and very efficient here, unlike it was in North Carolina after (Hurricane) Helene. So our teams are just force multipliers. We’re not there because of an absence of any government response, which makes it easier on us,” Trascher said.
Overall, the death toll has reached 108. Five campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic remain unaccounted for.
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