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Kerr County commissioners set to hold first meeting since catastrophic Texas flooding
Commissioners in Kerr County, Texas, are set to meet Monday in their first official court hearing since more than 100 people, ...
Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
Kerr County officials, who have come under increasing scrutiny for their actions as the Guadalupe River began to flood, ...
FEMA records show Kerr County didn't alert all cellphones as flooding began
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the ...
Kerr County officials waited 90 minutes to send emergency alert after requested, dispatch audio shows
At a Wednesday morning press conference, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha declined to answer a question about delayed ...
Some Texas flood alerts were delayed as officials waited for authorization, former Kerr County official says
Recordings provided to CBS News showed first responders asking for an emergency alert to be sent, but dispatchers delayed ...
Texas flood: Kickoff meeting for Kerr County warning system project had been planned for mid-July
A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with ...
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Kerr County officials took 90 minutes to send emergency alert: Dispatch audio
In 2021, Kerr County incorporated FEMA's Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) into CodeRED, so that messages ...
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Kerr County leaders discussed river warning sirens for a decade. Could they have used federal COVID money?
The Kerr County Commissioners Court discussed installing early warning sirens as early as 2015, after a deadly flood on ...
So many didn’t have to die. Texas must fix the failures the Hill Country floods exposed
Texas officials and Hill Country leaders knew the risks of flooding along the Guadalupe. Warnings went unheeded, flood ...