Texas Camp Leader waited over an hour after the tidal warning to evacuate | Texas flooded 2025

The adult head of Camp Mystic, the summer camp in Texas, in which 27 children and consultants died in the floods of the Hill Country, waited more than an hour after receiving a severe flood warning before initiating an evacuation. He was announced on Monday.

Richard “Dick” Eastland, who had led the popular all-girls with his family since the 1980s, Christian-value Sleepaway camp on the shore of the Guadalupe River, was one of the deaths after a water wall was pushed through the warehouse in early July.

A spokesman for the Eastland family said the Washington Post that a National Weather Service (NWS) warning warning was sent to his phone at 1.14 a.m., which warns of “life -threatening floods”, and only at 2:30 a.m., with heavy rain still fell and the river level quickly rose, he made the decision to start evacuations.

The report throws a new light on a few chaotic hours at the campsite, where almost 700 girls slept in dormitories. The campers were not allowed to bring mobile phones, and the consultants had to give them up so that they could not see the emergency harvest themselves, gave two Mexican advisors of teenagers.

The family spokesman, Jeff Carr said, said that Eastland had spent time after the alert willingness with family members, some of whom lived and worked as employees in the 725 hectare camp. The Swiss Post said that the NWS alarm contained no order or recommendation for the evacuation, an authority that he leaned against the local government officials.

Regardless of this, the actions of the authorities in Kerr County, which wore the main load of the floods, which 132 killed and were missing, were still being examined.

Carr said that the employees of Walkie-Talkie have communicated and that Eastland finally ordered an evacuation after he realized that the situation had become critical, especially in dormitory, which was closest to the river, which contained some of the youngest campers.

The 70 -year -old Eastland died after his truck was swept away when he tried to get a group of little girls to safety, said Carr. Many of the deaths occurred in the Bubble Inn and Twins cabin, which were trapped 4 feet between vertebrae, according to analysis. Ultimately, the Guadalupe River shortened into 37.5 feet, according to the US Geological Survey.

Many of the young consultants who were responsible for the dormitories had to make immediate life or death decisions even after they had lost contact with adult superiors, the post says.

Carr added that the Eastland family wanted to provide information about the timeline to try to avoid speculation. “It will be important to go through this process and avoid that information is shared piece by piece,” he said after a family seat on Sunday, which he said, he was the first real opportunity to meet and mourn.

While the declaration explains some of the decisions by Camp employees, others are still questioned. The head of the Hunt volunteer fire brigade, who is closest to Camp Mystic, told the newspaper that she had received no help for the camp. In the meantime, families have announced some campers to receive no notification of the situation about the situation up to an e -mail shortly before 11.30 a.m.

The search for the missing people was stopped in some places on Sunday and Monday after further heavy rained dangerous conditions and the fear of further flooding caused.

At a meeting of the Kerr County Commission on Monday morning, the first since the catastrophe, officials revealed grim new details of the consequences of emergency. “We swept into the river with families with families with families in the river. [We] I can't find the trailers, we don't know how many of them there are, ”said Rob Kelly, Rob Kelly.

A trailer was found 27 feet under the surface of the river “completely with gravel” and added that Sonar -Crews searched the river and the local lakes. Two reserves connected to the river would be drained to support the search, officials said.

The Sheriff of Kerr County, Larry Leitha, informed the meeting that the search and restoration operations of his office could take up to six months, reported CNN.

The Sheriff's office said that 2,200 people from several local, state and state authorities had been deployed to support the recovery efforts.

Associated press contributed reporting