Volunteers in Texas are searching for flood victims and combing through debris along a 30 mile stretch of the Guadalupe River. CNN’s Ed Lavandera spoke with Texans who are coming together to bring closure to their community.

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Search and recovery operations are underway along a 30-mile section of the Guadalupe River in Center Point, Texas, after recent severe flooding. Volunteers and emergency teams are combing through debris, including remnants of homes and vehicles, in an effort to locate missing persons.

The community has mobilized, with local residents and first responders working together to bring closure to affected families. The search is complicated by the scale of destruction, with debris fields and uprooted trees posing significant challenges. The local fire station, itself previously flooded, now serves as a command post for the ongoing efforts.

Urgent search operations for flood victims stretch miles in Texas

Passing through the gates of the Last Gap Ranch in Centerpoint, Texas, volunteer firefighter Razor Dobbs takes us to the edge of a sunflower field, the beauty eclipsed by heartbreak. Yeah, there's been a lot of victims in this area right here. And this is a place that's home to you. This river is this whole community's home. This river is like the backbone. This river is where people that grew up on this river, and their kids are growing up on this river. This is the story of one spot along the Guadalupe River and the monumental task of finding the missing. This is a pinprick. This is a little bitty one frame of a whole movie of equipment. Right. I mean, this operation right here is going for 30 miles plus. All the way back to Camp Vista. Yeah. And so it is crazy. Heavy machinery has taken over the banks of the Guadalupe River. Makeshift roads have been carved into the river's edge to haul out mountains of debris. This whole area right here was a huge debris field. It was full of not only natural debris, but it was full of remnants of RVs, houses, boats, just names, which triggers the search and rescue people that, okay, this is a hotbed. Razor can't say how many bodies have been found along this tiny stretch of the river, but every day since the July 4th flood, he says search teams have uncovered victims here. This spot is about 30 miles downriver from Camp Mystic. The discoveries uncovered here have shocked him. What kind of debris have you guys found down here as well? Well, we've found signage from Camp Heart of the Hills. That's up there by Camp Mystic. That's 30 miles away. That's staggering. That's staggering. That's the power of this river. This is what the search crews are having to navigate their way through, these massive cypress trees that have been ripped out of the ground. All of this was well underwater here, and there's so much debris even up in the trees. You can see how high the water reached here. It probably reached a little bit higher than that. And crews here, when they see something like that, have to be concerned that there could be someone in that debris pile still high up in a tree. Navigating our way through the riverbed, we came across a group of volunteers trudging through terrain, a group of strangers who've come together to help. We just all have that one common goal of helping the community and helping fellow Texans. One week into this tragedy, and there is an outpouring of gratitude for the volunteers and emergency teams working along the river. As you sit here and you watch this operation, and it's heroic on so many levels, but do you think it's possible that there are some families who are just not going to get their loved ones back? You know, right now, I'm not even going to think about that. You know, right now, my mentality and our mentality, the thing is, we're bringing people home, and that's it. For seven days, Razor Dobbs and his fellow Centerpoint volunteer firefighters have worked around the clock. As we navigated the debris field, he seemed frozen for a moment. A few weeks earlier, he enjoyed a picnic in this spot with his wife and friends. Does it hit you pretty hard? Just still numb. I'm still in work mode. But it's, you know, it's filtering in. You know, my wife came down from the house and just looked, and she just started crying. Because not at the destruction of the property, this is going to grow back. But just the horror and the anguish that these families must feel. Number one, the powerlessness they must feel. We met Razor Dobbs at the Centerpoint volunteer fire station. He told us that the place was flooded with eight feet of water, but since then, it has been taken over by volunteers and first responders. They've turned it into the command post, and from there, hundreds of people are fanning out every day looking for the missing.

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