Two nursing students from Wayland Baptist University’s Ben and Bertha Mieth School of Nursing in San Antonio volunteered during the Fourth of July weekend to assist search and rescue efforts after flooding devastated parts of Central Texas.
Valerie Hedenland and Elizabeth Santos, both enrolled in Wayland’s LVN to BSN program, responded in Leander through Intrepid Care, a veteran-run nonprofit that mobilized quickly to support first responders. The women, both military veterans and close friends, provided medical care to search teams in one of the hardest-hit areas.
“For both of us, this was personal,” said Hedenland, 32, an Army veteran. “We have acquaintances who lost loved ones in the flooding. We felt compelled to go out there and help our fellow Texans in any way we could, hoping our nursing background and military experience would be of good use.”
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