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A Houston police officer battling stage 4 metastatic colon cancer has helped to rescue hundreds from the floodwaters left behind by historic storm Harvey.
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“The collective heart of the Houston Police Department (HPD), the Houston Fire Department, all of our municipal co-workers, (and) just the entire first-responder community in this city is second to none, and I am very proud of that,” the chief said. Despite more than 200 officers having their own homes damaged or destroyed “They’re putting their duty first.”
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So far, Hurricane Harvey has claimed at least 31 lives. Houston officials embarked on the house-to-house search to recover the dead Thursday in areas where floodwaters rose 3 feet or more.
Read More →Academy Sports + Outdoors' corporate headquarters in Katy, TX, has become a command center for police, army, and medical crews in town to support the hurricane Harvey rescue effort. President and CEO J.K. Symancyk opened his doors to these first responders.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said today it had received "disturbing" reports of people in the Houston area posing as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and telling residents in the area to leave their homes.
Read More →TX-based convenience store company Buc-ee's gave Houston-area first responders free food and drink Friday in its Katy, TX, store as Hurricane Harvey barreled toward the city.
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The Houston Police Officers’ Union has put out a call on Facebook, requesting that the public help officers working the Hurricane Harvey response.
Read More →Perez, days shy of his 61st birthday, was in his patrol car driving to work downtown Sunday morning when he got trapped in high water at I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road.
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Officials in Texas said Monday afternoon that at least eight people appear to have died as a result of the storm battering the state. Authorities expect the toll to rise as more rain and surging floodwaters pummel the Gulf Coast.
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Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told Good Morning America that officers completed more than 2,000 rescue missions this weekend after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the central Texas coast, leaving thousands of people stuck inside their flooded homes.
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