North Carolina swift water rescue team deployed to Texas floods

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A swift water rescue team from North Carolina is in Texas as parts of the state are in the midst of a flooding emergency that has led to hundreds of evacuations and the closure of some schools Monday.

According to North Carolina Emergency Management, the state’s Search & Rescue Taskforce 2 out of Buncombe County has been deployed to help the Texas Division of Emergency Management.

The group arrived over the weekend and have split into four boat crews. The task force has assignments in the Deep River and Coldsprings communities, NC Emergency Management said, and will be conducting evacuations in flooded residential neighborhoods.

Days of heavy rains have hit the Houston area and southeastern Texas hard, leading to hundreds of rescues, according to the Associated Press. Some parts of the state from central Texas to the Dallas-Fort Worth area also received several inches of rain in a short span of time, according to the National Weather Service.

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