{"id":375638,"date":"2026-07-16T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:37:32","slug":"one-dead-in-texas-hill-country-floods-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375638\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in Texas Hill Country floods, officials confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KERR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A person died during flood rescue operations in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/flash-flood-emergency-declared-for-kerrville-area-as-catastrophic-flooding-prompts-rescues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Hill Country<\/a>, according to Travis County officials.<\/p>\n<p>Hector Nieto, a public information officer for Travis County, said STAR Flight crews have been flying rescue missions in Kerr and Gillespie counties as catastrophic flooding continues in the region. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/flash-flood-emergency-declared-for-kerrville-area-as-catastrophic-flooding-prompts-rescues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED | Kerrville residents ordered to shelter in place amid catastrophic flood conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nieto said the death occurred during rescue operations and that it happened in Kerr County. Nieto believes the rescue took place just west of Comfort along the river.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A person died during flood rescue operations in the Texas Hill Country, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-375638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375638","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=375638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}