The teams come from the Los Angeles County, Riverside City, and Orange County Fire Departments, as well as Menlo Park in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fire crews and trained search dogs from the Bay Area have been deployed to Texas to assist in ongoing rescue efforts as catastrophic flooding continues across the state. As of Wednesday, more than 160 people were missing and at least 100 have died, according to the Associated Press.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed another crew of Urban Search and Rescue team members to Texas on Tuesday to help with the ongoing search and rescue operations. Former Menlo Park Fire Department chief Harold Shapelhouman joined KTVU to talk about the team from Menlo Park headed to Central Texas,