Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says
Camp Mystic’s leader was following the air before Deadly Texas floodsHowever, Camp’s spokesman for Operators on Wednesday said in a statement that the national weather service triggered an emergency warning that triggers an emergency warning to the phone in the region.
Family and Camp Spokesperson Jeff Carr, Camp Mystic’s Owner Richard “Dick” Eastland, along the Guadalupe River, began to take action after raining more than 2 inches. He said Eastland was a “home air station ve and was watching rain on 4 July.
However, after showing that the media initially received air warnings about a flash flood this week, Carr Associated Press said that the critical moment in the timeline of the tragedy was not as clear as the first thought of the family and staff. Carr, family or camp personnel, no one, Eastland’ın 01:4 14 could not say whether the warning
Carr, “Just because it is a mobile phone and shortly after this warning, it was assumed to call his family on radios, ‘Hey, we got two inch in the last hour. We need to remove the canoes. We have things to do,’ ‘he said.
The new account of the family comes to the examination of the actions of Camp Mystic staff, which preventive measures are taken and the camp causes A during the disaster flood that kills at least 132 people.
The National Weather Service, which was released on July 4 at 01:14 for Kerr County, triggered emergency warnings to publish sales points, air radios and mobile phones. He warned that “a dangerous and life -threatening situation”. Weather Service extended the warning at 3:15 and rose to the Flash-Flood emergency at 4: 03
Eastland died trying to save the girls, and Tahoe was found sweeping the flood waters, Carr Carr said.
Even without a storm, the scope of the mobile phone in Camp Mystic is best acne, so campers and staff open the Wi-Fi, Car Carr said. Eastland called a ridiculous criticism that he had been waiting for for a long time before he started to evacuate the campers, he said he started between 2 and 2:30.
“Communication was a big deficiency, Car Carr said. “This community was Hamstrung, nobody could communicate. The first respondent was a play manager of the first rescue personnel.”
According to Carr, Eastland and others began to evacuate girls from the cabins closest to the overflowing river and carried them to the camp’s two -storey recreation hall. The recreation hall closest to the river is the farthest of 865 feet (264 meters) with approximately 315 feet (approximately 96 meters), relative to a re -images related to the air images.
Carr said they would have to cross a overflowing stream to reach the senior hill on the higher ground. Sometimes young campers climbed the hills to the bare feet.
Some buildings of the camp-under-the-water-Federal Emergency Management Agency thought it as a 100-year-old flood plain. However, in response to an objection, FEMA in 2013 He changed the flood map of the district to remove the 15 buildings of the camp from the danger area.. Carr said that the appeal was “legitimate” reasons for appeal and argued that maps may not always be true.
Just before Daybreak on July, Four, Destructive, fast moving waters The Guadalupe River rose 8 meters (8 meters), washed houses and vehicles. Teams on helicopters, boats and drones are looking for victims.
Authorities say 97 people in the Kerrville region It can still be missing.
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Associated Press writer Christopher Keller, New Mexico, contributed to this report from Albuquerque.
