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Sunday morning recovering efforts were suspended in Kerr County due to heavy rainfall and a new flash flood warning issued for the Hill Country.
Fatigue and frustration are growing among rescue workers who are ending another long day of searching for those who perished in last week's Hill Country flood disaster. Some volunteers involved in the search are even resorting to on-site IV injections to get through the hottest day yet in the Guadalupe River basin,
Tragedy struck the Texas Hill Country last week as sudden, massive flooding over the July 4 holiday killed more than 120 people. PBS News traveled to the heart of the disaster to cover the ongoing search and recovery efforts on the ground.
More than two dozen Mexican rescue volunteers and firefighters have been looking for victims and clearing debris along the Guadalupe River. Others were left waiting for visas and humanitarian permits to cross the border.
Katherine Ferruzzo, a Camp Mystic counselor who had been missing since the Texas floods, was found dead on Friday, July 11, Ferruzzo's family confirmed in a statement obtained by NBC 5.
Rumors about National Weather Service cuts, cloud seeding, rescues and more spread online following the deadly July 2025 floods in central Texas.
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.
Officials in Kerr County, where the majority of the deaths from the July 4 flash floods occurred, have yet to detail what actions they took in the early hours of the disaster.