– via New Jersey 101.5
A New Jersey native is being called “an American hero” for rescuing nearly 200 people out of flood waters in Texas.
Officials reported that more than 850 people were rescued within the first 36 hours but many remained missing on Sunday, including 10 girls from Camp Mystic, a summer camp wiped out by the flooding early Friday.
Scott Ruskan said he “saw a huge crowd of about 200 kids at a campsite.” “We were like, ‘Cool, that’s where we’re going to go and get out as many people out as we can,'” Ruskan said.
– via New York Post
“This is why we take those risks all time. This is why like Coast Guard men and women, are risking their lives every day,” said Petty Officer Scott Ruskan — who was in charge of triage at Camp Mystic, the Christian girls’ summer camp that saw some of the worst of the flooding.
Bryan Winchell, a helicopter search and rescue technician with Texas Task Force 1 — a joint partnership between the Texas Army National Guard and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service — called the Coast Guard looking to get boots on the ground and in the air for an emergency rapid response near central Texas.
“That’s a little bit outside our area of operation normally, but people were in danger, and we’re a good asset to try and help people out, and these guys were asking for help, so that’s kind of what we do,” Scott Ruskan said.
