{"id":119413,"date":"2025-08-04T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119413\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:42:08","slug":"911-calls-reveal-more-about-june-floods-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119413\/","title":{"rendered":"911 calls reveal more about June floods in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN ANTONIO, Texas<\/strong> – 911 calls obtained by FOX 7 Austin reveal more about what people were experiencing during the deadly flooding in San Antonio<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

Local perspective:<\/p>\n

In a chilling 911 recording, a woman recounts her partner\u2019s final words.<\/p>\n

“My partner just called me and just said that he was trapped in a ditch or something and his car was underwater, and he tried to go to the back of the car to break out,” the caller stated. “The call cut off.”<\/p>\n

A total of 13 people lost their lives on June 12, when half a foot of rain fell on San Antonio in the middle of the night. 911 calls came in, one after another, starting at around 4:15 a.m.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m drifting, I\u2019m going under, I\u2019m going to flip, I\u2019m upside down,” a 911 caller said.<\/p>\n

Beneath overpasses and in low-lying intersections, water rose quickly, catching drivers off guard.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m under the bridge and the bridge is flooding, I didn\u2019t even see it,” a 911 caller said.<\/p>\n

“I made it out in waist-deep water,” another 911 caller said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many people became trapped.<\/p>\n

“My car is going underwater. I have my kids with me,” a caller said.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m on top of my car right now,” a 911 caller said.<\/p>\n

Cars were swept away, forcing some to climb trees to escape.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m inside the river; I\u2019m holding a branch but I\u2019m going to sink,” a Spanish interpreter said relaying a callers message to dispatch.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s like going into their vehicle, it\u2019s bad, and there\u2019s a person inside of there,” a 911 caller said.<\/p>\n

“The water\u2019s just coming in the truck. I don\u2019t even know what to do,” another caller said.<\/p>\n

By the numbers:<\/p>\n

San Antonio fire crews rescued more than 10 people from the trees and bushes as far as a mile from where they entered the water. Cries for help came from all over.<\/p>\n

First responders stated they were trying to get to everyone in time, but they were busy.<\/p>\n

“The city\u2019s been working on 100 calls for the same thing all over the city,” a firefighter told a 911 caller.<\/p>\n

City officials said more than 70 water rescues were carried out.<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

This was one of the deadliest floods in San Antonio history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city has launched an investigation into what contributed to it.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Information in this report comes from 911 calls obtained by FOX 7 Austin and previous reporting.<\/p>\n

San Antonio<\/a>Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Texas – 911 calls obtained by FOX 7 Austin reveal more about what people were experiencing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,50,7202,7203,5313,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-119413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-severe-weather","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114973150290500700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}