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Members of Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) have had a busy hurricane season so far, most recently returning from a FEMA deployment to Puerto Rico.

TX-TF1 completed demobilization today after 14 days of search and rescue, evacuation and other life-safety operations across the state during one of the largest natural disaster events in history. Harvey made landfall on the Texas Coast as a category 4 hurricane and then became a major tropical storm, dropping a record-breaking 51.88 inches of rain on the state

TX-TF1 and TX-TF2 urban search and rescue (US&R) teams continue to support local jurisdictions in Brazoria County, where the Brazos River is in a “flood of record” status. In Harris County, the teams are assisting the local fire department with evacuations of a community near Buffalo Bayou.

Texas Task Force 1, Texas Task Force 2, and other state and federal resources are still conducting life-safety operations and search and rescue operations across much of Southeast and East Texas as flooding continues.

TX-TF1 and TX-TF2 US&R Task Forces are continuing search and rescue operations in Fort Bend and Brazoria counties and southeast Houston. TX-TF1 Water Rescue Squads and TX-TF1 Helicopter Search and Rescue Technicians continued conducting water rescue operations in Liberty, Chambers, Jefferson and Orange counties.

TX-TF1 and TX-TF2 US&R Task Forces are continuing to conduct rescues and evacuations of people and their pets in areas of Southeast Texas after Tropical Depression Harvey dropped more rain in the Beaumont and Port Arthur areas before moving into Louisiana.

Texas Task Force 1 and Texas Task Force 2 are engaged in supporting countless rescues and evacuations in Southeast Houston, where record flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey displaced people and pets from their homes.

Texas Task Force 1 and Texas Task Force 2 are assisting local personnel with response operations in the Corpus Christi and Houston areas.