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New York Post
11-07-2025
- General
- New York Post
Search-and-rescue volunteers had to rely on sense of smell to find bodies in Texas flood debris, one reveals
Volunteers combing through debris piles from the devastating Central Texas flooding had to sniff out decaying bodies in the 'chaotic' initial days of the search-and-rescue efforts. Ryan Logue, a resident of Kerrville, Texas, jumped to volunteer with the United Cajun Navy, a search-and-rescue nonprofit, as the floodwaters consumed the communities around him. He said the first days of the efforts were challenging as volunteers tried to sift through miles of heavy debris in the Guadalupe River for the missing without the help of cadaver dogs. 'You'd be on a 100-yard stretch of the river out in the middle of it, and there would be 2,500 piles within a hundred yards of it'd be one cedar tree covered in debris. You can walk by and visually inspect it, but you couldn't get eyes inside of the pile,' Logue recalled. 'You'd have to base it off possibly smelling decomposition if there is a corpse, if there's a cadaver in there or you just have to wait till it does start heating up and you do get that more of the cadaver dogs in there, but those first couple of days it was so chaotic and nobody knew what was going on,' he added. At least 120 people have been confirmed dead after the flash floods hit the region, according to local law enforcement and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Another 173 people are unaccounted for. 3 Kerville, Texas, resident Ryan Logue conducts search-and-rescue efforts after devastating floods swept through his community. CNN 3 A search dog helps people find bodies swept up in the flood in Hunt, Texas. AP Logue contacted the United Cajun Navy as the floodwaters took hold of his community and began recruiting a team of volunteers to search for the missing in his own backyard. 'It's gonna be victims that we're finding. It gets overwhelming thinking about all of it,' a tearful Logue told CNN. 'I care about these people so much that I will figure out whatever I have to do for their families to get closure,' he added. 3 Aerial view of flood damage in Ingram, Texas. AP The Kerrville resident said the effort has taken its toll as he's found dozens of personal belongings from the little girls who attended Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River where 27 children and staff members died in the flooding. As a father of a 7-year-old girl, Logue has found it difficult to separate himself from the tragedy. 'When you find people's personal items, they've got names in them. I found a young girl's Bible, it had her handwriting in there with all of her favorite scripture … and that takes as much of a toll on you over time as finding a body does because those are the same memories the body holds.' The Guadalupe River rose over 26 feet in under an hour, slightly outdoing the 1987 floods that swept through the Texas hill country. And search-and-rescue teams have only scratched the surface of the destruction, according to Logue. 'There's no way to tell how long this is going to take … It's a 100-mile strip of the Guadalupe. Some places it's 75 yards wide, some places it's a mile wide of destruction.'
The Irish Sun
01-05-2025
- Business
- The Irish Sun
‘I was crying at home' – Rafa Nadal reveals his ‘very emotional' reaction to Rory McIlroy's historic Masters victory
RAFAEL NADAL has revealed that he was left crying at home after Rory McIlroy's Masters success. The 3 Rafa Nadal was left in tears as Rory McIlroy won the Masters Credit: CNN 3 The golf star claimed the famous win last month Credit: Sportsfile McIlroy's victory meant he had finally He has many fans cheering him on to win the coveted green jacket and one from the world of tennis. And he has admitted that when the golfer putted in the winning shot, he could not hold back the tears. He told "I was, honestly, I was crying at home when he won, yeah. "I have been very, very emotional and I was suffering a lot with him." Nadal also insisted that he was always backing McIlroy to win the tournament. Most read in Golf JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS His support did not falter despite some shaky moments from the golfer. He added: "I honestly had the confidence all the time that he would make it happen. Rory McIlroy's Masters Triumph: Green Jacket, Big Prize, and Huge Tax Hit "He deserves it first of all. I always think that, in some way, there is justice. "I really believe that he probably knew before the round that he was to go through all these pressure moments, and the beginning is tough. "I think he accepted it very well." Meanwhile, Nadal's business The pair jointly invested in an Italian restaurant in Madrid called Toto. Toto Madrid has now shut down, with plans to open a new restaurant in the Spanish capital, alongside branches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi are still trading. 3
