A Texas man is being hailed as a hero after he died while trying to save his family from the catastrophic flooding in areas near the Guadalupe River in the United States.

Hundreds were missing, including over two dozen girls at a summer camp, and as minutes stretched into hours, hope gave way to grief. More than 90 people, including 28 children, were killed in the catastrophic Texas floods and the death toll continues to rise,

He looked at me and the kids and my mother-in-law and said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not going to make it. I love you all,” Julian Ryan’s fiancée, Christinia Wilson, recalled.