# @somethinglatina on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DL23nuRzIdw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34279389-somethinglatina-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-08T18:45:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Something Latina! (@somethinglatina) — https://gondola.cc/somethinglatina

## Caption

Silvana Garza Valdez and María Paula Zárate, both 19 years old, are being hailed as heroes for saving 20 girls who were under their care during the Texas floods. ⁠
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María Paula recounted in a later interview that it started to rain at around 1 in the morning. The rain was so intense that they couldn't sleep and spent the day sheltered in the cabins.⁠
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Silvana said that at around 3AM, the power went out throughout the camp and they decided to move the younger girls to other cabins in order to protect them.⁠
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The young women wrote their names on the girls' arms and placed identification badges on them, as a measure to facilitate their location in case they were separated. Additionally, they wrote their own names on their skin, in visible places.⁠
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Both Silvana and María Paula kept the girls calm throughout the entire ordeal.⁠
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“Thank God we were okay, and most of them were rescued. Obviously, we were going to pray for those who were missing,” said Silvana.⁠
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latinas, mexico, latino, jefa, texasfloods, latinos, latinapride, noticias, mexicana, heroes, latina, estadosunidos, jefas

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