LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada Job Drive 1 is now in Texas to start serving to with restoration efforts following the lethal Texas flooding.
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A workforce of 47 members, together with responders from Clark County, Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Boulder Metropolis fireplace departments, was dispatched on Tuesday, together with 4 skilled K9s, to help with ongoing search and rescue efforts in Kerr County, Texas.
Nevada Job Drive 1 heads to Texas for flood assist
As of this Thursday morning, the workforce was in San Antonio, the place they’re awaiting operational briefings earlier than being despatched into the sector. The floods have claimed 119 lives, with not less than 150 folks nonetheless lacking, most of them within the Kerrville space.
Job Drive Chief Matthew Gordon mentioned the workforce expects to be “looking for damage to buildings and how they can assist in the search and rescue of any victims and unfortunately, body recovery as well.”
