The exact number of victims of hurricane Harvey is not yet established, because many are still missing, but the sad figure is growing every day.
People died of different age from 6 to 89 years. And some of them sacrificed himself to save others, reports the Associated Press.
25-year-old Andrew Apiaries went to the house of the elder sister, who safely evacuated to pull out her favorite cat. Suddenly Andrew with his foot touch the bare electrical wire.
Seeing that the guy did something happen to him rushed to his friend, but Andrew was able before his death to warn him not to approach.
«He said don’t touch me. I die,» cries the mother of Andrew, Jodell Apiaries, which previously, in the 1990-ies buried another son – he was killed by a drunk driver.
Al Apiaries, the boy’s father, said his son was «remarkable young man» who was always rescuing stray animals, and once saved the life of himself and al more than a minute not breathing when a piece of food went down the wrong throat.
Al and Jodell want to scatter the ashes of his son on mount Rushmorewhere they wanted to go on a family trip.
Andrew Pasek, 25 went to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire in ankle-deep water| https://t.co/8QbLVk0GTe pic.twitter.com/9zCgILVoRa
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60-year-old police Sergeant Houston albert Steve Perez was killed during rescue operations. The chief of the Houston police Art Acevedo urged him to stay home with his wife and two children.
«I have a job – so he told his wife,» says Acevedo. «It was in his blood to help others. I’ve only been here nine months, we have 6,500 employees, but I knew who Steve Perez, because he was a kind and pleasant man, a real gentleman.»
Two friends, 45-year-old Ahir Rubio-Visit and 33-year-old Jorge Perez, was killed in an accident on the boat.
They specifically came on the boat at the time of the flood to save his family, friends and everyone I could.
It’s only three stories. It is unknown how many of them were even. Or will be – Texas is still in the disaster area.
