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Cecilia Nowell

Firefighters from Mexico aid Texas flood search and rescue: ‘There are no borders’

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A crew of firefighters from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, gather for a briefing as they aid in search and rescue efforts near the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, on Monday. Photograph: Eli Hartman/AP

A contingent of firefighters and first responders from Mexico arrived in Texas over the weekend to aid in search and rescue efforts following the devastating flooding of the Guadalupe River in a show of solidarity with their northern neighbors.

“When it comes to firefighters, there’s no borders,” Ismael Aldaba, founder of Fundación 911, in Acuña, Mexico, told CNN on Tuesday. “There’s nothing that’ll avoid us from helping another firefighter, another family. It doesn’t matter where we’re at in the world. That’s the whole point of our discipline and what we do.”

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