help put them back on their feet. [ inaudible question ]. absolutely. many of the 49 that we re talking about high water rescue vehicles are boats. we had a number that existed in our own inventory, fire has some already, police has some, public works had some, fbi in the area had assets. but the flooding that is taking place is unprecedented. historic. and was all over the city and all over the county, in fact all over the region. and it s not unlike what took place, they re saying 2016, when you may have had one or two areas that needed high water rescue vehicles.
still need to be pulled out of here, so austin and seth, the volunteer i want to bring in ed now live for us. ed, you re off of the boat. what is the latest? what has happened sense that moment that you brought us that rescue live here on cnn? reporter: well we re out here on interstate 45 now. pam jones and their mother being treated now. they re waiting for a vehicle that can drive them off and get them to safer ground. we re out of the neighborhood. she s finally being treated here. so everything is going to work out just fine. but to give you a sense, the rescues continue. it just isn t the boat that we were on. there are hundreds of volunteers fanning out in this one particular area of dickinson, texas, south of downtown houston. the city of houston. i think we re 25, 30 miles ousoh
rescue took place in dickinson. we re live. ed, what is the latest that you re seeing? actually we re going to show you the video of the moment when it happened. try to get them in the boat so we can get them out of here. i m going to put the mike phone down while we help them get into the boat. how are you doing sir? might be better to get in on that side there. let me see if i can get something for you to you want to give me your hand, sir and i can try to pull you up. how are your arms feeling? okay. jason, you want to come up here and help? i can help lift you if that s okay. you ready?
throughout the day. we know the galveston county alone they ve made more than 1200 rescues. they have 22 aircraft, 39 boats and 93 high water rescue vehicles in houston continuing to work and they re urging people to need help to get in a place where rescuers can see them and find them and get to them as quickly as possible. i want to bring in now a tweet from the former president, barack obama who just sent out this message. thank you to all of the first responders and people helping each other out. that s what we do as americans. here s one way you can help now. and he retweeted a link to the american red cross. so many have lost to much already in this storm. for more information on how you can help the victims of harvey, just log on to cnn.com/impact. we ll be right back. knowing where you stand has never been easier.