(7 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++ALL SOUNDBITES COVERED OR PARTIALLY COVERED++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Center Point, Texas - 7 July 2025
1. Various of Daniel Carlton using a chainsaw during flood cleanup efforts
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Carlton, Volunteer:
"Service revolves around my life, in uniform, out of uniform, so I get out here and do what I can."
3. Close up of Carlton cutting up tree
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Carlton, Volunteer:
"If we can bring some sort of closure by finding their loved ones, of course that's first and foremost. Helping rebuild people's lives, helping rebuild the community, always in the forefront of our minds also because, you know without that strong base, that foundation of friends and family and faith, I mean that's what draws us to help."
5. Close up of volunteers clearing debris
6. Mid of damaged porch
7. Wide of residents and volunteers clearing debris
8. Close up of Carlton cutting up tree
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Carlton, Volunteer:
"My family's been coming to Hunt to go camp with our children for the last 15 years. We've known some people who perished in the flood, you know, we have friends within the camp community who still can't find their daughters and so of course without question, if you get here, you show up and you do whatever you can."
10. Various of Guadalupe River flowing
11. Wide of Jason Sabala carrying a large log during cleanup efforts
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Sabala, Volunteer:
"No one wants anybody to go through that type of traumatic experience and so the thought, I mean it brought me to tears many times just thinking about, as a father, them being, they're helpless."
13. Wide of Terrence Ogden cleaning up debris
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Terrence Ogden, Volunteer:
"You know, I'm an 8th generation Texan and, you know this is our home, you know, and I always look at it if I was in these people's positions, how would I feel and what would I want?"
15. Mid of Ogden cleaning up debris
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Terrence Ogden, Volunteer:
"But a lot of times in these situations you get this strong effort right up front. Six months down the road you find the item of your loved one that you lost and it's like those are the tough times that it's like, it doesn't just end after we clean all this up because a lot of this stuff sticks around inside you, you know."
17. Wide of Ogden walking towards a damaged house
18. Mid of American and Texas flags waving
STORYLINE:
A July Fourth weekend deluge in Texas caused catastrophic flash flooding that has killed at least 89 people.
Disabled Army veteran Daniel Carlton is one of many helping with recovery efforts in Center Point, Texas.
"Service revolves around my life, in uniform, out of uniform so I get out here and do what I can" he said, using his prosthetic leg to keep his balance while cutting up a tree with a chainsaw.
Him and his family are frequent visitors of the Guadalupe River and has friends that have died from th... [truncated]
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