AUSTIN, Texas – Volunteers with Texas Search and Rescue have some days off after working throughout the state to help rescue people from flood waters, but the organization is still monitoring the situation closely.

• Volunteers were deployed nine of the last 13 days
• 20 volunteers in four boats helped rescue 15 people last week
• TEXSAR volunteers are deployed when a city or county reaches out for help

Although TEXSAR isn't currently deployed, they are preparing for water rescue operations if flooding continues. Shawn Hohnstreiter has been a volunteer for the past eight years. He is a contractor by trade, but volunteers up to 40 hours a week with TEXSAR.

"Right now, it depends on what the dams are releasing, with all that water moving downstream. Probably the concern might be more in the Bastrop, La Grange area as the water is pushed in to new areas," said Hohnstreiter.

Volunteers were deployed nine of the last 13 days.

"We are a force multiplier for the local and state agencies and those cases when we get deployed. We get our members rolling just immediately," said Hohnstreiter.

Most recently, the team of 20 volunteers in four boats helped rescue 15 people in Kingsland and Marble Falls, along with getting pets to safety and recovering a body. For Hohnstreiter, it's personal. He almost drowned at the age of seven.

"When people do meet us, it's usually not their best day. I just feel that it is ​my role to give back and support others and first-responders and the community in its time of need,” he said.

TEXSAR volunteers are deployed when a city or county reaches out for help. They work alongside first responders or are given their own designated area to perform rescue operations.