After floods killed 27 girls at the Texas camp, its directors are under investigation and the community is torn apart over its plans to reopen May 30 Source link
AUSTIN, Texas — The security guard at Camp Mystic the night of last year’s deadly flood acknowledged Wednesday that if a general evacuation order came early in the storm, lives could’ve been saved. Glenn Juenke, who helped move some girls to a two-story building before getting trapped inside a cabin himself, also saved a group … Read more
A major legal battle in Texas could determine the future of Camp Mystic, where 27 campers and counselors died in floods last summer. The family of the only victim still missing wants the camp closed after a camp director admitted to sleeping through a flood warning that might have saved lives. Jason Allen reports. Source … Read more
AUSTIN, Texa — The director of the Texas summer camp where 27 campers and counselors were killed by a devastating flood in 2025 said Monday he did not see early federal and state warnings issued the day before the storm hit, and that staff had no meetings about the pending danger. Camp Mystic director Edward … Read more
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Wednesday declined to fully close Camp Mystic — the tragic epicenter of the July 4 floods that inundated the Texas Hill Country last year — but prevented the part of the camp where the deadly flooding occurred from being altered. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble heard evidence in a packed … Read more
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge is hearing evidence Wednesday on whether the youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year should remain closed while a lawsuit filed by one of the girls’ families is pending. The family of 8-year-old Cile Steward, who was swept away during the … Read more
Clearing 2 feet of snow from a driveway is backbreaking enough. Clearing it from a 113-foot-long historic whaling ship docked in the river is something else entirely. Shipyard workers at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut were limited to rubber and plastic shovels as they carefully dug out Tuesday from the record-breaking snowstorm that hit … Read more
Families of nine victims of last summer’s deadly flooding in Texas are suing the state for allegedly failing to enforce a requirement that a girls’ camp where 27 campers and counselors died have an evacuation plan. The civil claim, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Austin, alleges the Texas Department of State Health Services … Read more