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A Texas firefighter pleaded for an alert amid rising flood waters. It
took an hour to go out
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 09 July 2025 15:48 EDT
As floodwaters in Texas rose in the early morning of July 4, a local firefighter petitioned for an emergency alert to quickly be sent out, but
local officials do not appear to have followed his request until about an
hour later, according to leaked audio.
The reported early-morning request raises questions about the timeline of events offered by local officials, who have said they had little advanced warning and no county system in place to alert residents about the
floods, a disaster now responsible for at least 119 deaths, with even
more still missing.
According to audio obtained by KSAT, at 4:22am, a fireman with the Ingram Volunteer Fire Department reportedly called into emergency dispatch to
warn that the Guadalupe River appeared to be rapidly overshooting its
banks. Around that time, the river rose as much as 26 feet in 45 minutes, according to state officials. The firefighter urged officials to
authorize a CodeRED alert, an emergency system that would send warning
messages to the cellphones of people who had previously signed up for the service.
A Kerr County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher responded that the request
would need approval from a supervisor. The earliest CodeRED alerts appear
to have reached local residents about an hour later, according to
multiple local media outlets, while some reported not getting their first CodeRED alert until after 10am.
Read more:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/texas- flood-alert-timeline-delay-b2785898.html
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KKKlaun sez: those campers got what they deserved for ignoring the
warnings.
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