Thirty-five more members of Missouri Task Force 1 left St. Louis for Texas this (Monday) morning in response to deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country.

According to a news release from the Boone County Fire Protection District, the Federal Emergency Management Agency upgraded Missouri Task Force 1’s designation from a Type III team to a Type I team late Sunday night, and with the upgraded designation more people were deployed. MO TF1 now has 89 deployed personnel in Texas.