Texas’s inspectors just two days before the catastrophic flood in the emergency planning of Camp Mystic in the Christian summer camp All-Girls Christian Summer, most of them, signed in Camp Mystics Emergency Planning.
The Ministry of State Health Services published records on Tuesday that the camp has been complied with a large number of state regulations in relation to “procedures that are to be implemented in the event of a disaster”. Among them: Use the campers to do what to do if you have to evacuate the camp and assign certain tasks to every employee and consultant.
Five years of inspection reports published by the Associated Press do not provide any details of these plans at Mystic and raise new questions about the willingness of the camp before the maximum precipitation on July 4th in the flood -risk -endangered Texan Hill Country.
The US National Weather Service published a flood guard for the area on July 3 at 1:18 p.m. This danger prompted at least one of the approximately 18 camps along the Guadalupe River to bring dozens of camper to higher soil.
The uncertainty about what happened at Mystic comes, since local civil servants have repeatedly answered questions about who monitors the weather and what measures were taken before the floods.
Several campers and employees were killed when a flood of falls in a summer camp for girls along the Guadalupe River hit Central Texas. Eli Glaser from CBC examines how Camp Mystics may have contributed to devastation.
No evacuation ordered
Camp Mystic, which was founded in 1926, was not evacuated and was particularly difficult when the river rose from 4.2 meters to nine meters within the early morning after the catastrophe. Flooding on this route of the Guadalupe begins at about three meters.
A water wall overwhelmed people in huts, tents and followers along the river. Some survivors were recorded on trees.
At least 27 campers and consultants died during the floods, and the officials said on Tuesday that five campers and one consultant have not yet been found. Among the dead was Richard “Dick” Eastland, the beloved director of the camp, who was described by Campers as a father figure.
Charlotte Lauten, 19, spent nine summer at Camp Mystic, recently recently in 2023. She said that she did not remember ever to ever get instructions as a motorhome, which is in the event of a competition.
“I know that the consultants do an orientation training for a week before the camp starts,” she said. “You will inform you about all these types of things.”
One thing that probably disabled the girl’s ability to escape was how dark it would have been, said Lauten. Camper has no access to her telephones in the camp, she said and added that because of the remote location, you would not have a mobile phone service anyway.
“This is in the middle of nowhere and they had no power,” she said. “It would have been pitch black as if I hadn’t seen a five foot in front of you darkness. I have never seen stars like there because there is only no light.”
Governor Greg Abbott made an aviation on Tuesday by destroying the flood, which was left in parts of central texas, and then spoke about the young victims in the region. “Nothing is as heartbreaking as the stories of what the girls did in this way at Camp Mystic-,” he said.
Inspections found no problems
The state inspected Camp Mystic on July 2, on the same day when the Texas Department for Emergency Management activated the resources for the emergency reaction before the expected floods.
In a long list of health and security criteria, no defects or violations were found in the warehouse in the warehouse. At that time, the camp had between its locations Guadalupe and Cypress Lake 557 camper and more than 100 employees.
The disaster plans must be published in all Camp buildings, but not submitted to the state, said Lara Anton, spokeswoman for the Texas Ministry of Health.
“We don’t have it,” wrote Anton in an e -mail. “You would have to get it out of the warehouse.”
Camp Mystic did not answer his emergency plan when asked about comments. In an explanation on his website, the camp said “in communication with local and state authorities who tirelessly use extensive resources to look for our missing girls”.
Camp Mystic notes that it is licensed by the state and member of the Camping Association for Mutual Progress. The goal is to “increase health and security standards for summer camps”. Managers of this association did not give back any news.
The American Camp Association said on Tuesday that Camp Mystic is not accredited with this organization, the standards of which are concentrating on security and risk management. Spokesman Lauren McMillin declined to say whether the camp had previously been accredited with the association, which described itself as “the only nationwide accreditation organization for the whole year and summer camp”.
