Team of firefighters and first responders volunteer along Guadalupe River after mass flooding in show of solidarity

Team of firefighters and first responders volunteer along Guadalupe River after mass flooding in show of solidarity

A contingent of firefighters and first responders from Mexico arrived in Texas over the weekend to aid in search and rescue efforts following the devastating flooding of the Guadalupe River in a show of solidarity with their northern neighbors.

“When it comes to firefighters, there’s no borders,” Ismael Aldaba, founder of Fundación 911, in Acuña, Mexico, told CNN on Tuesday. “There’s nothing that’ll avoid us from helping another firefighter, another family. It doesn’t matter where we’re at in the world. That’s the whole point of our discipline and what we do.”

They represent one of a handful of volunteer groups, including highly skilled search and rescue teams from California, that have traveled to Texas after the flooding which is being described as one of the US’s deadliest floods in decades. Dozens of people are still missing.

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 day ago

    Firefighters making a point that natural disasters aren’t contained to national borders: “There are no borders”

    ICE: “We’ll see about that”

  • sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    23 hours ago

    Christ, I hope those literal heroes GET THE HELL OUTTA THERE once the job is done. We are a hostile nation and Texas is one of the worst offenders. I fear for their safety and freedom

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    18 hours ago

    Even parents who had their children swept away in a literal flood will still vote Trump. The firefighters from Mexico embody “American Values” more than the parents to the bodies they pulled out of waters. Let that sink in. Oh and did those fire fighters get proper visas to come help? I doubt they did. Why isn’t ICE deporting them? In fact my family in Texas report a sudden disappearance of ICE in all areas in Texas since the storms… It’s almost as if someone can pick and choose who’s being targeted based on who has the president’s attention at any given moment… I sure hope Texas isn’t expecting their remaining migrant population to help rebuild their shattered and in need communities? That sure would be evil to restart the deportations after those private Christian camps and homes get rebuilt with migrant hands? Nah, conservatives would never be that evil.