Hospice patient airlifted to safety during East Texas floods

Hospice patient airlifted to safety during East Texas floods 
The Gilmer Mirror; by Emily Foxhall, Carlos Nogueras Ramos and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune; 5/3/24
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Willie Rawls woke up to water at the steps of his home Thursday in the river bottoms of Coldspring – one of the first towns hit by the several hundred thousand gallons of water released from the Lake Livingston Dam. The dam was releasing water in an effort to maintain its levels as merciless rain storms drenched East Texas this week. Rawls, 73 and in hospice care, was evacuated by the San Jacinto Sheriff’s Office, who arrived in an airboat and lifted him to safety. 
Editor's Note: What Emergency Preparedness Planning does your organization have in place? Revisit this article we posted on 4/21/24: Hospices and emergency preparedness planning: A scoping review of the literature.