The teams come from the Los Angeles County, Riverside City, and Orange County Fire Departments, as well as Menlo Park in the San Francisco Bay Area.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday the deployment of 18 more urban search-and-rescue team members to Texas to help with recovery from the devastating Independence Day flooding. The members are in addition to the nine members deployed Monday from the cities of Riverside and Oakland,

Fire crews and trained search dogs from the Bay Area have been deployed to Texas to assist in ongoing rescue efforts as catastrophic flooding continues across the state. As of Wednesday, more than 160 people were missing and at least 100 have died, according to the Associated Press.