On Feb 4th 2021, Texas Game Warden Bailey, assigned to Calhoun County, was presented with a TPWD Director’s Life Saving Citation for his quick and heroic actions on July 7th 2020 while responding to reports of a child in distress and floating on a small inner tube in Lavaca Bay. Game Warden Bailey immediately launched his patrol vessel and located the child about three quarters of a mile off the beach and drifting towards the Matagorda Shipping Channel.