r/Firefighting • u/H0sedragg3r FF/ EMT • Jul 07 '25

News Firefighters from Mexico respond to Texas Hill Country flooding, marking an international response

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/07/07/firefighters-from-mexico-respond-to-texas-hill-country-flooding-marking-an-international-response/
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bag8314 Jul 07 '25

Did they show up ?

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u/L_DUB_U Jul 08 '25

Yes a long with TIFMAS and two state task forces.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bag8314 Jul 08 '25

The two FEMA task force teams ? How many teams are stood up at one time nationwide and how many states would normally be represented at an event this size ?

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u/wes25164 Jul 08 '25

The Texas A&M Task Force. TF 1 and 2 were activated at the beginning of the incident, TF 3 was activated yesterday morning. Between all three task force assets and TIFMAS groups, you're looking at more than 1300 personnel.

There's not enough routine with events of this magnitude to compare and contrast different responses. Different events call for different resources, and time between events represents lessons learned from prior events. Also, remember your incident command system, not all of these resources are just stood up and ready in the event of one event happening, these things have to be activated, the framework already in place for an incident to be built in. It's not a bunch of inter-state teams being activated all at once. But an event can be scaled as big or as small as is needed.