Director of Camp Mystic waited for more than an hour after receiving a Attachment for floodplains Before you start evacuating campers in their cabins, his family confirmed the spokesman.
CEO Richard “Dick” Eastland, 70, together with his wife, was in charge of the loved Christian summer camp for all the girls in the hunt, Texas since the 1980s.
It is located directly in the flood zone. But when the national forecast issued a Flash flood of warning for KERR CUNTY at 1:14 am, the “Pane Flex flood” near the Guadalupa river, a small direction gave the camp lead.
Eastland did not order evacuations until 14:30, which time lush rain has already fallen and the river rises rapidly, according to the Jeff Carr family speaker, As reported Washington Post.
Instead, the director was first used by Walkie-Talkies to coordinate with members of his family, many of whom worked in the camp, in order to “evaluate the situation.”
Interviews, detailed in PostWith survivor and emergency staff, describe the chaotic and delayed response that has dropped the teenage counselors that darken as flood soldiers through the camp, which do not have a backup for your speaker system after not being dumped.
The result was a disaster. Twenty-seven campers and advisers died. Eastland I drowned while trying to save some of the youngest girls in the camp.
“There should be immediate actions (by the leader),” Serena Aldrich, a lawyer, parent and former camper, whose two daughters survived.
“They should have paid attention to those warnings and evacuated camp,” she added. “The flood is not a new thing. I don’t know if it was ever on such an epic proportions, but ignoring warnings doesn’t make much sense for me.”
Camp Mystic was under the flood that was under the flood earlier that evening, but for threat to life 1:14 am ‘which came without an official evacuation order, marked significant escalation.
The National Meteorological Service does not have powers for the mandate of evacuation. This responsibility falls on local officers. District authorities Kerr, however, did not use emergency warning systems for a residential warning to more than two days later, Post reported.
Is the MISTIK CAMP called 911 still unclear. The local chief of fire told the exit He never received a call for help from the camp.
By the time the camp began the evacuation, the Guadeloupe River has already begun historical transmission, ultimately pushed at 37.5 feet, almost leg above the previous record.
Advisors were forced to bring life’s or mortal decisions in the waist and breasts with high water. Nosali is barefoot children through darkness to a higher country as they listened to cry to help cabins closer to the river.
Some girls finally saved the helicopter. Others clung to trees or sheltered for hours on the roofs.
Camp staff has not officially contacted most parents until later that morning, according to e-messages obtained by Post. The first communication from the camp to most parents came at 11:28
Until then, many parents grew up hysterical over farming images that are divided into news and social media.