Firefighters from Mexico aid Texas flood search and rescue: ‘There are no borders’ | Texas floods 2025

A contingent of firefighters and first stakeholders in Mexico arrived in Texas during the weekend to help research and rescue efforts after the devastating flood of the Guadalupe river in a demonstration of solidarity with their neighbors in the North.

“Regarding firefighters, there are no borders,” ISMAEL ALDABA, founder of Fundación 911, in Acuña, Mexico on Tuesday. “There is nothing that will prevent us from helping another firefighter, another family. No matter where we are in the world. This is all the interest of our discipline and what we do.”

They represent one of the handles of groups of volunteers, including highly qualified research and rescue teams of California, who went to Texas after the flood which has been described as one of the deadliest floods in the United States for decades. Dozens of people still lack.

Under the command of the Mountain Home Fire Service and the Texas State Police, Fundación 911 helps along the Guadalupe river and is coordinated to provide reinforcements equipped with research and rescue canines of the Mexican state of Nuevo León.

The team of 13 is that on the other side of the American-Mexican border of the Texas counties most seriously affected by the floods, and practically responded to crises in the flood zones along the Rio Grande river.

The arrival of the international team comes in the middle of tensions along the American-mexic border on the repression of the Trump administration against immigration. But the message expressed by firefighters this week was that of the unit.

One of the volunteers, José Omar Llanas Hernández, told CBS News that he was immense pride to be able to serve communities and help save in any country.

His colleague, Jesús Gomez, who is a double citizen of the United States and Mexico, said at the point of sale: “There is a bunch of firefighters who have visas and we said to ourselves:” Let’s go and help we. “”

“Sometimes people on the other side cross and help us,” he added. “It’s time to give a little.”

Aldaba said that the inhabitants of Texas had been “welcoming for our Mexico team”.

In an article on social networks on Monday, the American ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, thanked the Mexican teams for their efforts. “The United States and Mexico are united, not only as neighbors, but as a family, especially if necessary,” he said.

In January, Mexico firefighters went to California to help fight forest fires in the Los Angeles region.

Also on Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum applauded the work of two Mexicans who survived the floods in Texas and saved at least 20 girls. Silvana Garza Valdez y María Paula Zárate worked as camp advisers at the Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp of girls where at least 27 campers were killed in flood waters, when the Guadalupe river began to flood.

“We started writing their names, we put their badges on them, we told them to make a bag with their business, with what they needed most, and if they had their favorite animal, to bring it,” Zárate told Mexican media n mas in a Spanish interview.

Aldaba, the head of the Mexican firefighters’ team, says that the first speakers “received a lot of love” from their American colleagues.

“We appreciate all the other guys who are here from different fire services in Texas,” she told CNN. “Our team was prepared in disasters. They went to different disasters around the world. We decided to come and help our friends and try to make them a little easier. What we found here was incredible. ”