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Firefighters Rescue Deputy Swept Away by Texas Floods
Posted On Nov 27 2015
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Search crews have found a third body in floodwaters after record rain deluged the Dallas-Fort Worth area. That driver’s name hasn’t been released.
A motorist and sheriff’s deputy were swept away in the Dallas area during a high water rescue early Friday as flash flooding begins to impact parts of Texas. Authorities are warning motorists to stay away from rising waters.
A Tarrant County sheriff’s deputy was rescued after holding on to a tree limb for more than two hours. In addition to north-central Texas, areas of southeastern Oklahoma and western and northern Arkansas are at risk for flash flooding. One northbound lane remains open, but all southbound lanes between Enterprise Drive and Lakeside Parkway are closed.
When rescuers got there, they found the vehicle submerged but could not find the driver.
Salazar was found clinging to a tree a couple hours later and has been taken to JPS hospital in Fort Worth. “She dropped her gun, she dropped her heavy equipment and went in the water to make that rescue”.
Deputy Krystal Salazar was rescued about 3 a.m.by Fort Worth firefighters using a watercraft to manuver the raging waters in Deek Creek.
“The rain and the water was at such a high rate across the roadway, as she was attempting to get into the auto… she herself was swept into the water and taken downstream some distance and lost”, said Terry Grisham of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
The state transportation department discouraged travel in the Texas Panhandle after the storm front left dozens of major roads, bridges and overpasses covered in ice and snow.
With this holiday weekend storm, cities in the affected area – including Austin and Houston in Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Fort Smith, Arkansas; and St. Louis, Missouri – have reached or could reach yearly rainfall totals that put 2015 within their top ten wettest years on record, the Weather Channel reported. That total will likely rise as the storm system is expected to saturate this region through Sunday.
