More Missouri Task Force 1 members deployed to Texas
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
FEMA has requested that more members of Missouri Task Force 1 to be deployed to Texas to assist with the response to flooding, according to a Monday press release from the Boone County Fire Protection District says.
The release says Task Force 1 was upgraded from a Type 3 team to a Type 1 team, which includes deploying 35 additional members. There will be 89 personnel from Missouri in total deployed in Texas.
Fifty-two members of Task Force 1 were deployed last week to Kerr County, Texas. The latest round of members left this morning, the release says. Catastrophic flooding over the Fourth of July weekend led to the deaths of more than 100 people, according to reporting from CNN.