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.
Texas Task Force 1 and Texas Task Force 2 search and rescue teams have been activated in preparation for the landfall of Hurricane Harvey along the Texas Gulf Coast.
TX-TF1 deployed 80 personnel who worked with response partners to support and assist local responders, and searched 700 structures for tornado victims near the Canton area in Van Zandt and Rains counties.
Texas Task Force 1s Logistics and Communications team members participated in the U.S. Air Force Reserves Operation Patriot Express airlift exercise with the 315th, 433rd and 445th Airlift Wings.
Texas Task Force 1 demobilized after a 16-day deployment for severe weather and river flooding in Central, North and Southeast Texas. The team was activated on May 26 and performed operations in 19 Texas counties.
Sixteen-year-old Bretagne, the last known FEMA Search & Rescue Canine who served at Ground Zero, has died peacefully in Cypress, Texas. She deployed with her handler Denise Corliss and other members of Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) to the site of the World Trade Center in 2001.