Austin – nearly a month ago, the lending of countless volunteers and the first respondents assist on those who were affected by the destroyed floods that were struck in central Texas during the weekend on July 4.
On the other hand, Mobile IV has risen to help those who were helping others.
Lone Star IV Dists He spent about two weeks stationed in Hill Control, in managing IV vitamins and drugs for the volunteers and the first respondents to help recover floods.
Bam McCloid, head of Lone Star IV Medics, said that she and her team did not expect the number of people who would need to help, and began to run out of supplies quickly.
This is where the Lone Star IV partner is Olympia Medicines came.
McCloid said it had contacted an representative with Olympia, a facility for the use of external sources registered 503b and 503a the pharmacy vehicle, According to its website. This means that it is authorized to distribute and distribute the patient’s medical prescriptions in addition to manufacturing large groups of a product that can also be sold to healthcare facilities.
Olympia responded quickly and presented the IV color with IV fluids and vitamins with a huge discount, McLEOD said. This allowed Lone Star to treat more than 250 people over the two weeks who were in the recovery sites at The Hill Country. McCloid said that these types of treatments, which first help in moisture, are necessary for people who spend a lot of time in the open air or do manual work.
“We think about water and electrolyte … there is only much that you can do with oral moisturizing,” said McCleid. She gave some examples of Lone Star IV workers, which were treated during flood restoring efforts.
“The people who work … divers, you are in the water, but you sweat and you do not take enough time to eat and settle only and take a break,” said McLeid. “Dog treatments were the corpse, they were moving through thick clay, heat, bugs and moisture.”
“People who work in heavy machines, they are there for hours, just pushing more and hard to help and find victims there. Because of heat and humidity, and all the water that was there, shows drought very quickly,” McLolid explained.
She said that these types of efforts can lead to a dangerous level of dehydration if they are not treated. “So we were able to help before they need to get out of the site.”
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Rain is located at the time when Irene Valdez is visiting a memorial to the flood victims along the Guadalpe River, Sunday, July 13, 2025, in Kerville, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) -
The search and rescue teams combed the banks of the Guadalobi River after it swept the flood of the area of the area, on Saturday, July 12, 2025, in Kurville, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) -
Superman, after the volunteers saved him in Kurville (with the permission of: APA!) -
Search operations along the Guadalobi River in Kurville continue on July 5, 2025 (KXAN Photo/Frank Martinez) -
Rescue teams continue to work to find missing persons after the floods (Kurville Police Department photo)
“When we entered, we were really able to help with only simple liquids and two different wives can help you feel a little improvement to continue the pressure more,” McCleid explained. “This is what Olympia really did, it was giving us these few decisive vitamins that we need to add to our fluids that were able to help people for a little longer.”
Mcleod, who has a nursing wallpaper, said Lone Star IV has a full medical team that passes each patient before any of the paramedics or nurses treated them. She said that what her team saw in Kerville is dehydration and heat -related diseases or injuries, which could be “catastrophic” and caused volunteers or the first respondents “to be their own rescue.”
The flood was the first natural disaster Lone Star IV to her. Usually, the company provides treatment through the appointment system.
McCleid explained that Lone Star IV did not stem from the self. She said that she is coordinating with organizations that lead recovery efforts to know where they can help better, whether it is concentrated in a local church that acted as a resource center to restore floods, or go to where the volunteers and the first respondents resided at night to treat them there.
McCloid said they treated more than 250 people during these two weeks.