As the search and recovery efforts enter the seventh day, at least 120 people are dead and 170 missing in the deadly floods.

Fire crews and trained search dogs from the Bay Area have been deployed to Texas to assist in ongoing rescue efforts as catastrophic flooding continues across the state. As of Wednesday, more than 160 people were missing and at least 100 have died, according to the Associated Press.

Recent flash flooding in Texas​, New Mexico​ and North Carolina​ is highlighting the extreme danger of these natural disasters and the need to be prepared.

Texas police described some of the harrowing rescues they conducted after flash floods engulfed camps and homes in the state's Hill Country.

Dallas-area couple Jeff and Tanya Ramsey helped warn family members of incoming floods moments before they were swept away. Jeff remains missing.

On the one-year anniversary marking the passing of Christie Williams' dog, she decided to volunteer in his honor to give a canine from animal control a "freedom ride" to whichever rescue agreed to take them. But when she arrived and met Sarah, a blue nose pit bull, there was an instant connection.

A training exercise in the Salt River turned into a real rescue on Tuesday when Mesa firefighters saved a man who wasn't moving in the water. Mesa Fire and Medical crews were doing a swift water drill when they spotted the 75-year0old man and jumped into action.

Rescuers saved a dog named Hailey from a 100-foot fall down an abandoned mine shaft in Mohave County using a twin-tensioned rope system; she emerged uninjured.

Another 11 people are still missing. "This fills us with more courage to continue to search for those missing, as the Greek vessel operator requested, and shows that our search plan was correct," said Nikos Georgopoulos,