Texas Game Wardens to adapt K-9 training after Hill Country floods as search for missing continues

Texas Game Wardens are incorporating lessons learned from the devastating Hill Country floods into their K-9 training programs, as the search for two missing people continues months after the disaster.

Texas Game Wardens and their K-9 partners were among the first responders on the scene when the Guadalupe River flooded near Hunt on July 4.

The teams searched through massive debris fields and challenging terrain in efforts to locate victims, including Jeffrey Ramsey and Cecilia Steward.

Ramsey and Steward have still not been located.

“It was the worst thing that we’ve ever seen,” said Texas Game Warden Dustin Fleming, who responded with his 3-year-old K-9 partner Piper from their station just 21 miles away in Kerrville.

Fleming and Piper, along with other K-9 teams, covered approximat