The team deployed around 7 a.m. Friday from Corpus Christi, about 200 miles south of where the Guadalupe River in Kerr County ...

Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer and New Jersey native, is credited with saving lives ...

Scott Ruskan had only been a fully trained Coast Guard rescue swimmer for six months when he saved 165 campers from Camp ...

Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan helped save 165 people after the Guadalupe River surged by more than 20 feet in less than two hours early Friday in Texas.

Petty Officer Scott Ruskan is being hailed as a hero after rescuing 165 flood victims during his very first rescue mission ...

Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan rescued nearly 200 people including children from Camp Mystic during catastrophic ...

Scott Ruskan had never been on a rescue mission when he boarded a helicopter to find a crowd of about 200 campers stranded by ...

Scott Ruskan helped rescue at least 165 people, many of them young children at a summer camp that was hit the hardest.

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Scott Ruskan, a 26-year-old US Coast Guard rescue swimmer, saved 165 people during devastating floods in Central Texas.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — US Coast Guard-Sector Corpus Christi Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan is being called "An American Hero" ...

Scott Ruskan, a 26-year-old rescue swimmer with the U.S. Coast Guard, is being applauded as an "American hero" after his first mission saw him save 165 people affected by the flash floods in Texas.