Katie Hayes Luke
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For NPR
Hours after catastrophic flooding tore through Kerr County, an army of volunteers was already en route.
"We had seen the alerts overnight when we started getting reports about mass casualties. We had a feeling we were going to get a call," says Brian Trascher, vice president of the Louisiana-based group of volunteers called the United Cajun Navy.
And within a couple of hours they did.
By Friday afternoon, a group from a chapter in San Antonio arrived with airboats. Trascher and others from Louisiana soon joined them.
Read more about the United Cajun Navy's rescue efforts in Kerr County from NPR here.