Officials in a Texas town where nobody died amid the state's devastating flooding last week are crediting an updated siren system with saving lives.

Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell.

The mission proved to be much more arduous than expected for her and her small crew of four, all of whom are first tour aviators.

Alexis Moriarty was driving through Comfort, Texas, when something beneath a bridge caught her eye. That’s when she saw it: a stuffed lamb lying alone in the mud.

People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. Residents were seemingly caught off guard, but warnings had been issued days and hours before floodwaters began carrying away homes,

Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the Empire State building downstream roughly every minute it remained at its crest. The force of floodwater is often more powerful and surprising than people imagine.

This flood was the first time Comfort’s new siren system was activated. The county upgraded these emergency alerts back in 2024. Kendall County informed us that this cost roughly $70,000. A nonprofit paid $60,000 and Bandera Electric donated the poles.

Among those offering charitable aid to those in need is a trained chef, cooking and serving food day in and day out at a fire department in Comfort.

Everyone in Comfort, a more than 2,200-person unincorporated community in Kendall County, survived the flooding thanks to warning sirens.

A small Texas community where everyone survived flooding has sirens that warned them If people in Comfort hadn’t seen the weather alerts sent to phones or announced on radios, if they hadn’t ...

A small Texas town that recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster had recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of setup state, county and federal officials