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A small Texas community where everyone survived flooding has sirens that warned them

A small Texas community where everyone survived flooding has sirens that warned them

Washington Post10-07-2025
As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream , sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort -- a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone alerts and firefighters going street-to-street telling people to get out.
Daniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July Fourth saved lives.
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