{"id":44577,"date":"2025-07-06T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/44577\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:43:09","slug":"bodies-of-texas-flood-victims-sent-to-fort-worth-for-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/44577\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of Texas flood victims sent to Fort Worth for identification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodies recovered from the Texas Hill Country floods<\/a> will be sent to Fort Worth for identification, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Col. Freeman Martin<\/a>, head of the state\u2019s Department of Public Safety, said at a news conference that bodies of adults and children at a local funeral home are awaiting identification. Texas Rangers are collecting DNA from the bodies and family members searching for missing loved ones. <\/p>\n

The bodies are being flown to the University of North Texas\u2019<\/a> Center for Human Identification in Fort Worth, one of the premier DNA facilities in the country. A spokesperson for the center did not immediately respond to an email Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have answers with rapid DNA in hours, not days, to get some closure to these families,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n

D-FW Weather Wise<\/p>\n

From snow to 100-degree heat, we’ve got you covered.<\/p>\n

Anguished families have been searching for loved ones since the Guadalupe River surged to its second-highest height<\/a> on record early on the Fourth of July. <\/p>\n

At least 59 people were killed<\/a> and many more remain missing, including 11 girls from Camp Mystic<\/a>, a popular girls summer camp nestled along the Guadalupe River. The total number of unaccounted for is not known, but authorities have warned the death toll will rise.<\/p>\n

Rescuers are using boats, drones, helicopters and horses to comb large swaths of the Hill Country<\/a>, with mangled trees, overturned cars and the muck-filled river banks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing everything we can,\u201d Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. said during a morning news conference Sunday. \u201cOur goal is to rescue those in peril and find those who are lost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodies recovered from the Texas Hill Country floods will be sent to Fort Worth for identification, authorities said…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,7375,358,31296,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-44577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-tarrant-county","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-flooding","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114808948194917123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44577","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=44577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}