Search crews scour West Texas for signs of life after devastating floods
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INGRAM, Texas — Samuel Cummings spent much of Monday wading through knee-high floodwaters, trudging across muddy fields, digging into mounds of dirt and slashing through thickets of brush with a chain saw. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.
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Main Idea: Volunteers like Samuel Cummings and Brandie Masters joined search crews in West Texas after deadly floods left at least 104 people dead or missing, including 27 at Camp Mystic.
Key Points:
- Crews searched muddy fields, riverbanks, and debris piles for survivors and victims near Kerrville and Ingram.
- Cummings said the hardest part was seeing signs of Camp Mystic children, like shoes and sports gear, scattered in the flood debris.
- Masters and her husband stayed to help and searched for any signs of life while recovery work continued.
- Heroes for Humanity and other volunteer groups sent trained teams into the disaster zone to support rescue and recovery efforts.
Impact on the People
Negative Impact
Floods can raise costs for taxpayers, small businesses, and households through rescue, cleanup, and rebuilding, while also disrupting travel and local services.
Positive Impact
Volunteers and groups like Heroes for Humanity can speed search and recovery and may help save lives.
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- Major:Brandie Mastersperson
- Major:Camp Mysticnonprofit / NGO
Candidate Entities10 candidates · 5 weighted vote min · 70% decision
- Brandie MasterspersonMajorEvaluated
Major volunteer participant whose rescue-and-recovery efforts and quotes are a substantial part of the story.
Include 0 (0%)Ignore 0 (0%)5 to threshold - Camp Mysticnonprofit / NGOMajorEvaluated
Central place in the tragedy where girls and counselors died, repeatedly referenced as the source of the personal.
Include 0 (0%)Ignore 0 (0%)5 to threshold - Dennis PricepersonMajorAI selected
Founder and CEO of Heroes for Humanity, quoted on the recovery efforts and the scale of the devastation.
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Nonprofit sending veterans, first responders, and medical personnel to disaster sites; directly involved in the recovery response.
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Field operations manager for Texas EquuSearch, leading a major volunteer search effort and quoted extensively.
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Central volunteer described doing search-and-recovery work in the flood zone and quoted about the conditions and loss.
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Search-and-rescue nonprofit deploying volunteers to look for survivors and victims in the flood aftermath.
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