Emergency recordings and videos detail the chaotic rescue efforts during the deadly Texas floods

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FILE - First responders from College Station Fire Department search along the banks of the Guadalupe River, as rescue efforts continue following extreme flooding, July 6, 2025, in Ingram, Texas. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Gonzalez, file)

Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how. Top emergency leaders were asleep or out of town.

Using recordings of first responder communications, weather service warnings, survivor videos and official testimony, The Associated Press has assembled a chronology of the chaotic rescue effort as a flash flood barreled east through the Hill Country o