Texas, Camp Mystic and flood
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Heroics of Texas camp counselors cast spotlight on those who oversee millions of US kids each summer
As floodwaters rose in Texas, camp counselors hoisted children onto rafters, carried them to dry ground and sang with them to keep them calm.
Texas inspectors verified that Camp Mystic had a written emergency plan just two days before the devastating flood killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.
Brooklyn and Bailey MckNight's little sister, Paisley, was at a camp on a smaller arm of the Guadalupe River. The 14-year-old was "just miles" away from Camp Mystic in Central Texas, which has been devastated by the deadly floodwaters spurred by extreme rainfall on July 4.
Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt is among those grieving a dead relative after 9-year-old Janie Hunt was a victim of flooding in central Texas.
Scott Ruskan helped save over 200 lives in the deadly flooding in Central Texas over the July 4th weekend. He's a former collegiate athlete and "team first guy."
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Robert Earl Keen, a Texas music legend who has a ranch in Kerrville and whose daughters attended Camp Mystic, talks about the impact of July 4 floods.
Authorities leading the search for victims of the devastating flooding in Texas deflected intensifying questions Tuesday about who was responsible for monitoring the weather that killed more than 100 people and warning that flash floods were barreling toward camps and homes.