Overview
- Local officials released hundreds of emergency recordings from the July 4 floods, capturing frantic pleas for rescue, children screaming, and repeated requests for helicopters.
- Audio from Kerr County shows only two dispatchers handling a crush of calls, at times cutting conversations short to switch to new emergencies.
- Twenty-eight people died at Camp Mystic as the Guadalupe River rose rapidly, with callers reporting washed‑out roads, power loss, and dozens unaccounted for.
- Nearby Camp La Junta reported flooded cabins and a structure collapse, yet the camp says every camper, counselor, and staff member survived.
- Families have filed wrongful‑death lawsuits over the Camp Mystic deaths, and the camp says it will reopen next summer with more than 100 flood monitors, NOAA‑alert radios, backup satellite internet, and higher‑capacity generators.