Texas families plead for information on more than 20 girls missing from summer camp after floods
Kerrvılle, Texas (AP) – Texas parents published photos of their young daughters on social media. More than 20 campers A summer camp from All-Girls was not calculated on Friday after the floods passed through the south-medium region of the state overnight.
Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said that at least 13 people died on Friday, and in the country of Texas Hill, he was lost after a few hours of heavy rain. The Tufan Eğilim region ended with centuries -old summer camps that attract thousands of children from all over the Lone Star State.
Lieutenant Patrick said about 23 girls who joined Camp Mystic, a Christian camp along the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, were not calculated on Friday afternoon. The search teams were working to run helicopter and boat rescue In the fast -moving flood waters.
“I ask the people of Texas, I do a serious prayer in the afternoon-we pray a little in your tenders-we find these young girls,” he said.
In dozens of family, local Facebook groups, security officials, daughters are not yet among the washed camp cabins and trees fell to the destructive telephone conversations shared. Some expected to hear whether their children could be released by the helicopter. Patrick, nine rescue teams in the search, 14 helicopters and 12 drones were used, he said.
Camp Mystic said that their children have been accountable if they are not directly contacted with an e -mail to parents. Security officials said there are about 750 campers.
In a primary school, which is used as a re -merger center in the nearby Ingram, more than hundreds have taken a step from the buses that have been ground around a courtyard, leaving their loved ones evacuated. A young girl wearing a mystical t -shirt stood in a puddle in her white socks, scrubbing her hands and watching the buses coming in her mother’s arms.
Many families hoped to see their loved ones in camping areas and mobile home parks.
Camp Mystic is sitting in a lane known as Flash Flash Flood Alley, Austin Texas Hill Country Austin Dickson, CEO of the Community Foundation, is a charitable donation to assist the disaster -free non -profit organizations.
“When it rains, the water does not get wet in the soil, Dick Dickson said. “He’s running down the hill.”
Ten years ago, the flood waters swallowed a young camper bus from another Christian camp along the Guadalupe River during the destructive summer storms in 1987. A total of 10 camps from Pot O ‘Golden Christian camp could not evacuate buses close to Comfort, 33 miles (53 kilometers) could not evacuate the buses in the east of Hunt.
Camp Mystic leaders, power, Wi-Fi and flowing water and the highway to the camp was washed, he said.
Camp Waldemar and Camp La Junta, the other two camps in the river, said that all the campers and staff there are safe for Instagram tasks.
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Schoenbaum reported from Salt Lake City.
