Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan rescued nearly 200 people during his first mission over the weekend from floods that ...

Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan rescued nearly 200 people during his first mission over the weekend from floods that ...

The team deployed around 7 a.m. Friday from Corpus Christi, about 200 miles south of where the Guadalupe River in Kerr County ...

Scott Ruskan finished his training with the coast guard just six months ago; the Texas floods were his first rescue mission.

The 26-year-old was new to the Coast Guard. He had left a previous career as an accountant before enlisting, and had ...

Scott Ruskan helped rescue at least 165 people, many of them young children at a summer camp that was hit the hardest.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — US Coast Guard-Sector Corpus Christi Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan is being called "An American Hero" after helping save more than 169 lives during the devastating Fourth of July ...

A member of the U.S. Coast Guard is being hailed as a hero for rescuing over 160 people during the catastrophic flash floods in Central Texas on the Fourth of July.