Mo. Task Force 1 arrives in Texas, from Boone Co. Fire Protection District’s Facebook page, used with permission
Missouri Task Force 1 is headed home from central Texas. Gale Blomenkamp, spokesman for the state’s top search and rescue team, says, though, a few of them won’t be coming home right away.
“Four members are still in play and are still in Kerr County,” Blomenkamp told Missourinet. “They will be there for a few more days, finishing up some stuff with the incident support team and then they will be demobilized here in the next few days.”
Nearly 90 members of the task force have spent almost two weeks in central Texas responding to massive flash flooding that’s left at least 135 people dead. They had the task of recovering the bodies of people missing. They found no survivors once they deployed.
“No,” Blomenkamp said. “The last known live rescue from that event actually occurred on July 4th, on that Friday. We were activated on Monday the 7th, so there were no live rescues after July 4th, unfortunately, down in Texas.”
The team worked a ten mile stretch of the Guadalupe River in Texas, using equipment and cadaver dogs to scan under water and in massive debris piles.
They worked in hot, humid conditions, in areas with widespread destruction of roads and bridges and huge debris fields.
Eighty-five members of Missouri Task Force 1 are expected to arrive back in mid-Missouri’s Columbia sometime on Wednesday.
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