During Texas's second-worst flood, Matthew Crowder ignored dispatch warnings to save a family. Now the community rallies to help survivors.

A Texas man took matters into his own hands when he bravely rescued a family as their home was flooding during the deadly and historic floods on the Fourth of July.

As floodwaters rapidly rose overnight across Central Texas, one man’s instincts may have saved a family’s life.

Mark Sanfratello, now 72, was last seen with his girlfriend Teresa Peroni in July 1983. Her remains were found 14 years later in 1997. Hope Rowe, 33, was convicted of murdering Charlotte Lawlor in Stepney Green, east London. The incident occurred in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4.

Matthew Crowder was driving to work when he noticed that one family’s front yard “became a raging river.”