{"id":326067,"date":"2026-06-07T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/326067\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:03:07","slug":"texas-game-wardens-rescue-or-evacuate-nine-people-from-flooding-across-central-texas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/326067\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Game Wardens rescue or evacuate nine people from flooding across central Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Teams with the Texas Game Wardens have helped rescue or evacuate nine people since <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/heavy-rain-flash-flood-risk-ahead-for-central-texas-friday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">storms rolled through central Texas overnight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials say that members of the Texas Game Wardens Search and Rescue Team have been responding to flood-related calls since early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As of noon Saturday, crews have rescued or evacuated nine people and have responded to 11 total calls for service, rescue operations happening across Bell, Falls, McLennan and Milam Counties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/travis-county-esd-1-responds-to-electrical-fire-at-a-home-caused-by-suspected-lightning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE | Travis County ESD 1 responds to electrical fire at a home caused by suspected lightning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Game Wardens say that additional personnel are staged and ready to deploy near crucial areas.<\/p>\n<p>Officials ask residents to follow local safety directives, not drive around barricades, and avoid unnecessary travel in flooded areas.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never drive or walk through floodwater,&#8221; the Texas Game Wardens said on social media. &#8220;It can hide washed-out roads, debris and other hazards, and is often deeper and moving faster than it appears.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Teams with the Texas Game Wardens have helped rescue or evacuate nine people since storms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-326067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}