Forty-eight members of Ohio Task Force One are in Texas helping out, including Worthington firefighter Chris Courtney and his search dog, Guinness.

Forty-eight members of Ohio Task Force One are in Texas helping out. They're members of local fire departments who are specially trained in urban search and rescue.



The group is in Katy, just outside of Houston. The water rescue team helped locate stranded and endangered people Sunday night and again Monday.

Two members of the task force are Worthington Firefighter Chris Courtney and his dog, Guinness.

Guinness searches for people buried under destruction. Courtney and Guinness worked the Corpus Christi area and are now waiting for their next assignment in Houston.

Courtney said the flooding is like nothing he's ever seen.

“As we were coming into the Houston area, we had just heavy rain for hours and hours and hours, it didn’t stop,” said Courtney. “The dogs will be used when we get to the point when the water starts to recede a little bit.”