Young campers missing as 24 die in Texas flash flooding
The heavy rain released flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas, and the rescue teams killed at least 24 people to save the victims who were trapped in high water or reported that they were missing in disaster.
Authorities, among the losses, the engineer of the rain on the shore of the All-Girls Christian summer camp listed as not calculated 23 to 25 people, he said.
Late on Friday, about 18 hours after the start of the July 4 crisis, at a press conference, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that search and rescue operations will pressure until night and Saturday.
Abbott said the resources allocated to the effort would be “unlimited”.
Speaking to journalists in Air Force One at the end of a day of public activities, President Donald Trump said, “We will take care of them,” he said when asked for federal help for disaster.
For some parts of Kerr County in the South-Middle Texas Hill country, the US National Weather Service declared a flood emergency after storms, about 100 km northwest of San Antonio.
District seat Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice, journalists before the dawn, very little or no warning was shot, the authorities rapidly on the big flood stage of the GUADALUPE pre -pre -evacuation orders, he said.
“This was very quickly for a very short time, even with radar,” Rice said Rice. He said. “This was less than two hours.”
State Emergency Management officials warned the West and Central Texas that they faced heavy rain and flash flood threats for the next few days “in the early hours of Thursday, and referred to national weather service forecasts before the holiday weekend.
However, the weather forecasts “did not predict the amount of rain we see”, Texas Emergency Management Department Director W Nim Kidd, said at a press conference on Friday night.
The July 4 fireworks shows were canceled in floods in the region, including the Kerrville, where the coast site was set by the rainfall river for the Planned US Independence Day celebration on Friday night.
On Friday night briefing, Kerr district Şerif Larry Leitha said that the death of 24 floods on the 13th of the 13 floods in the early hours of the day was verified.
Lieutenant Governor, Patrick, Friday afternoon authorities, the region is under water at around 4:00 hours in the summer camp areas on the banks of the Guadalupe River, more than 750 children listed as a missing 23 girls, he said.
Lost campers were joining Camp Mystic, a special Christian summer camp for girls.
“We pray for the fact that the missing ones are alive,” Patrick said. He said.
It was not clear whether the irresponsible person could end between the dead victims spoken by the Sheriff throughout the country.
Otherwise, he said that all other campers were safe, the campers were moved throughout the day.
Rob Kelly, the best local officer suppressed by journalists, insisted that a disaster of this magnitude could not be foreseen.
“There is always floods. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.” He said.
“We had no reason to believe that this would happen like what happened here. None.”
In a warning on Thursday, the Texas Emergency Management Department, West and Central Texas “continuous heavy rainfall and holiday to holiday weekend for flash flood threats” prepared as “additional state activates the resources of emergency intervention”, he said.
