A week after Central Texas flash floods, organizers urge volunteers to register with relief groups — not “self-deploy” — as search and rescue

NEAR LENANDER, Tx. ( WALA) - Alabama Task Force One, or AL-TF1, posted on its Facebook page Saturday that crews have begun work in flood ravaged parts of Texas. AL-TF1, along with state partners Saraland Fire and Tuscaloosa Fire (AL-TF5), continues its efforts to traverse the Big Sandy Creek area near Leander, TX.

During Texas's second-worst flood, Matthew Crowder ignored dispatch warnings to save a family. Now the community rallies to help survivors.

The Austin, Texas, fire chief is being accused of denying requests to send rescuers to Kerrville days before the catastrophic flooding — because of an $800,000 dispute with the state government.

Rumors about National Weather Service cuts, cloud seeding, rescues and more spread online following the deadly July 2025 floods in central Texas.

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.

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard are sharing powerful stories from recent flood rescues in Central Texas. One rescuer recalled spotting a young girl in the back of a rescue vehicle, tears streaming down her face.