Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that killed at least 119 people on July 4.

The mission proved to be much more arduous than expected for her and her small crew of four, all of whom are first tour aviators.

The survival of people in local camps and low-lying areas depended not on official evacuations but on whether they were paying attention, on their own, to weather alerts in the middle of the night.

All campers from the all-boys Camp La Junta survived and are safe, officials from the Kerr County camp said. "We are profoundly grateful that every boy at Camp La Junta is safe, yet our hearts are heavy,

More than 160 people are still believed to be missing in Texas days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, the state's governor said Tuesday.

Crews are digging through mountains of debris along the Guadalupe River as they continue their desperate search

A firefighter appears to have called for emergency alerts at least an hour before the first warnings were received.

John David Trolinger, a former Kerry County, Texas, IT director and registered pilot, was part of the team that installed Code-Red at the county level more than a decade ago. It sends recorded messages and texts to warn people about life threatening emergencies,