TEXAS LATEST: At least 118 people have died from the devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country, with 173 people still missing as of Wednesday afternoon. Kerr County was hit the hardest, with at least 95 deaths, including 36 children. The vast majority of the missing – 161 people – are in Kerr County as well. That number includes five campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic. Search and recovery operations are ongoing. Follow live updates:

with at least 95 deaths, including 36 children. President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for the county and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the ground there.

Officers went “door-to-door, waking people up, convincing them that, ‘Yes, the floodwaters are coming, and you need to leave now,'” he said. “They rescued people out of vehicles. They rescued people out of homes that were already flooding, pulling them out of windows.”

Lamb said the tragedy would have been worse without officers’ quick-thinking.