The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to the central Texas floods that killed at least 136 people.

Urban Search and Rescue Chief Ken Pagurek quit over a new policy that led to delays in FEMA's response to the flooding in Texas on July 4, sources said.

Pagurek told colleagues he was frustrated by the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to dismantle FEMA and by new hurdles that slowed the agency's response to the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas earlier this month,

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing the state’s emergency response to the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people.

Testimony will be heard from those in charge of managing rivers as well as emergency managers and first responders about the flash flooding that killed at least 135 people.

Texas lawmakers convened Wednesday morning for the first hearing of the Joint Committees on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding. The 18 senators and representatives heard invited testimony about the state’s response and preparedness for the devastating Independence Day floods in Central Texas,

The first request for a death investigation came in around 8:15 a.m. on July 4, when Kerr County sheriff’s deputies were summoned to a riverside address in Ingram a few ticks we

Kerr County, Texas, declared a local state of disaster following severe, life-threatening flooding over the Fourth of July weekend. The town of Ingram was left devastated, with uprooted trees and streets rendered unrecognisable.