{"id":47703,"date":"2025-07-08T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47703\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:53:08","slug":"desantis-to-send-florida-crews-to-texas-to-help-after-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47703\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis to send Florida crews to Texas to help after floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida will send water rescue crews to Central Texas to help with the search for people missing after torrential downpours over the weekend, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Flash flooding has claimed nearly 90 people and some are still missing, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas has helped us when we\u2019ve had different issues throughout the years,\u201d DeSantis said during a news conference. \u201cAnd we\u2019re happy to step up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said it\u2019s unfair to politicize the initial response to the unpredictably destructive storm and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother Nature, especially the water, we see that in Florida with storm surge. It can be really, really nasty,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd this was a biblical flood. It was much more than what I think they anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Florida will support Texas following the catastrophic flooding in Kerrville and the surrounding areas. At my direction, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLSERT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FLSERT<\/a> is deploying three swiftwater rescue teams through an EMAC to assist with response and recovery. We\u2019re standing by to lend more help as requested.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1941906135465754868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida will send water rescue crews to Central Texas to help with the search for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,13565,12170,36748,3188,723,7310,8629,50,6063,5292,13570,36573,9073,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,36749],"class_list":{"0":"post-47703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-public-safety","11":"tag-app-weather-stories","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-local-politics","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-public-safety","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-tallahassee","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-weather-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114815592261899456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703","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=47703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}