The Red Cross is sending several volunteers from Tucson to help those in need in Ruidoso, New Mexico, following destructive flooding.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was in Ruidoso on Thursday, July 10, 2025, where she reported federal funding will be coming.

As residents and businesspeople in Ruidoso assess the damage caused by heavy and dangerous flooding, others can find ways to help. Here is what to know.

The two children were identified as Charlotte Trotter, 4, and Sebastian Trotter, 7, according to their aunt Tiffanie Wyatt. She said their father, Sebastian Trotter, a solder based at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and their mother, Stephanie, both suffered serious injuries but survived and were receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Texas.

Flash flooding from heavy rain killed at least three people and prompted dozens of rescues in the Ruidoso area of southern New Mexico, officials said — the same area devastated by wildfires last year.

The National Weather Service is sharing details on the rapidly evolving situation in New Mexico. In the past few minutes, the NWS says a "father and two children washed away. SW crews in pursuit." Another update reads, "1 adult 2 children trapped and needing rescue".

Visitors to a local brewery in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were stunned to see a house swept away by rushing floodwaters on Tuesday as they waited out the danger.

The disasters in Texas and New Mexico are something we can't take for granted here in Minnesota. In 2007, deadly flash floods forced people to evacuate homes and campgrounds in southeastern Minnesota.