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The joint Select Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding will meet Thursday in Kerrville, Texas — the site of the deadly Independence Day Floods — for the second time to hear testimony ...

The task force was assigned to a 35-member urban search and rescue team; the Minnesota unit would be ahead of or trailing the larger group to provide K-9 support.