NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n\n\n- A nurse, who worked at the Christian summer camp where\u00a0multiple girls went missing amid the flash flooding that struck central Texas, shared footage of the young campers’ evacuation<\/li>\n
- In videos shared on TikTok, a bus full of girls can be heard singing worship songs as they were driven to a reunification point to meet with their parents<\/li>\n
- “I wish you could see ‘before’ shots to show how truly devastating it is,” the nurse wrote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A nurse, who worked at the Christian summer camp where\u00a0multiple girls went missing<\/a>\u00a0amid the\u00a0devastating flash flooding that struck central Texas<\/a>, shared footage of the campers’ harrowing escape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nCamp nurse Devon Paige had been working at Camp Mystic \u2014 a 100-year-old camp that has served as a summer getaway for the likes of future first ladies and the daughters of presidents, per\u00a0Politico<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 when the Guadalupe River began to surge amid historic flash flooding in the region on July 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nIn videos on\u00a0TikTok<\/a>, Paige detailed how many of Mystic’s hundreds of campers escaped on buses and in the back of law enforcement vehicles as their belongings and cabins were swept away by the flood.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“This is footage from my evacuation and everything I saw,” she captioned\u00a0one video<\/a>. “I wish you could see ‘before’ shots to show how truly devastating it is.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\nOne clip showed a large group of girls sitting still in the back of a bus as they were driven to a reunification point to meet up with their parents \u2014 and all of them were singing worship songs during the ride “to try and calm everyone,” Paige wrote.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas.<\/span>RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAnother\u00a0harrowing clip<\/a>\u00a0posted on Paige’s account showed the nurse and several other adults’ reactions to the cars overturned by the flood and trees ripped from the ground, taken from the back of a law enforcement vehicle as they shouted, “Oh, my god!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“Half the camp is on a hill,” she wrote in a comment underneath the post, detailing how many staff members and campers came up to the top of the hill seeking safety. “We had no idea the magnitude.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nTen girls and one counselor from\u00a0Camp Mystic\u00a0are still unaccounted for, authorities said, per\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTwo families have also confirmed that they lost their daughters in the flood.\u00a0Lila Bonner and Eloise Peck<\/a>\u00a0died after Camp Mystic was inundated by the rain-swollen floodwaters,\u00a0Fox affiliate KDFW<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0NBC affiliate KXAS<\/a>\u00a0reported. Lila’s death was also confirmed to PEOPLE by her relatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nIn a\u00a0statement to PEOPLE<\/a>, shared on Saturday, July 5, Lila\u2019s family said they were “heartbroken.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“In the midst of our unimaginable grief, we ask for privacy and are unable to confirm any details at this time,” they added. \u201cWe ache with all who loved her and are praying endlessly for others to be spared from this tragic loss.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nAdditionally, the\u00a0Kansas City Star<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reported on Sunday that 9-year-old Janie Hunt, a relative of Kansas City Chiefs CEO and chairman Clark Hunt, was killed in the flooding. Clark’s wife, Tavia Hunt, shared a post on her Instagram Stories, writing, \u201cOur hearts are broken by the devastation from the floods in Wimberley and the tragic loss of many lives \u2014\u00a0including a precious little Hunt cousin, along with several friend\u2019s little girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nPer the\u00a0BBC<\/a>, campers Sarah Marsh, a third grader, and 8-year-old Renee Smajstrla also died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“Renee has been found and while not the outcome we prayed for, the social media outreach likely assisted the first responders in helping to identify her so quickly,” her uncle Shawn Salta wrote on social media, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nNever miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n“We are thankful she was with her friends and having the time of her life, as evidenced by this picture from yesterday,” Salta added. “She will forever be living her best life at Camp Mystic.”<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Eloise Peck and Lila Bonner.<\/span>OKCM Search & Rescue Team\/Facebook<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAdditionally,\u00a0Richard “Dick” Eastland<\/a>, a father of four and the owner of\u00a0the private Christian camp, is among those\u00a0who have died, according to\u00a0Texas Public Radio<\/a>,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and other reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“[H]is last act of kindness and sacrifice was working to save the lives of campers,” a friend, Paige W. Sumner, wrote in a tribute to him in\u00a0the local\u00a0Kerrville Daily Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nDick and his wife, Tweety Eastland, had been with the camp since 1974 and were\u00a0third-generation managers<\/a>\u00a0of the facility, which has been in their family since 1939, according to the\u00a0Camp Mystic website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n![\"Camp](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/SxcLbxvd1sVSlmt718VAOCdvPTk=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(1026x330:1028x332):format(webp)\/Dick-Eastland-camp-owner-dead-Texas-floods-070625-51c219fcdc0b4baba78ef739a2f66850.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/div>Camp Mystic director Richard “Dick” Eastland.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFlooding in the Guadalupe River caused it to reach its\u00a0second-highest height<\/a>\u00a0ever,\u00a0ABC News<\/a>\u00a0reported. The area received at least 10 inches of rain, per San Antonio outlet\u00a0KSAT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nKerr County, which is approximately 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, has been hit especially hard by the floods. The city of Kerrville declared a\u00a0state of emergency<\/a>\u00a0due to the floods, while Hunt (also in Kerr County) experienced more than six inches of rain in three hours on Friday, which is a “1-in-100-year event” in the region, according to\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\nCNN reported that the flooded region experienced “more than an entire summer’s worth of rain” in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\u201cThis may be a once-in-a-lifetime flood,” Clint Morris, a Kerr County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson, told KSAT. He added that it was “an extremely active scene, countywide.”<\/p>\n
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- A nurse, who worked at the Christian summer camp where\u00a0multiple girls went missing amid the flash flooding that struck central Texas, shared footage of the young campers’ evacuation<\/li>\n
- In videos shared on TikTok, a bus full of girls can be heard singing worship songs as they were driven to a reunification point to meet with their parents<\/li>\n
- “I wish you could see ‘before’ shots to show how truly devastating it is,” the nurse wrote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A nurse, who worked at the Christian summer camp where\u00a0multiple girls went missing<\/a>\u00a0amid the\u00a0devastating flash flooding that struck central Texas<\/a>, shared footage of the campers’ harrowing escape.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nCamp nurse Devon Paige had been working at Camp Mystic \u2014 a 100-year-old camp that has served as a summer getaway for the likes of future first ladies and the daughters of presidents, per\u00a0Politico<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 when the Guadalupe River began to surge amid historic flash flooding in the region on July 4.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nIn videos on\u00a0TikTok<\/a>, Paige detailed how many of Mystic’s hundreds of campers escaped on buses and in the back of law enforcement vehicles as their belongings and cabins were swept away by the flood.<\/p>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“This is footage from my evacuation and everything I saw,” she captioned\u00a0one video<\/a>. “I wish you could see ‘before’ shots to show how truly devastating it is.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nOne clip showed a large group of girls sitting still in the back of a bus as they were driven to a reunification point to meet up with their parents \u2014 and all of them were singing worship songs during the ride “to try and calm everyone,” Paige wrote.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas.<\/span>RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Another\u00a0harrowing clip<\/a>\u00a0posted on Paige’s account showed the nurse and several other adults’ reactions to the cars overturned by the flood and trees ripped from the ground, taken from the back of a law enforcement vehicle as they shouted, “Oh, my god!”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“Half the camp is on a hill,” she wrote in a comment underneath the post, detailing how many staff members and campers came up to the top of the hill seeking safety. “We had no idea the magnitude.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nTen girls and one counselor from\u00a0Camp Mystic\u00a0are still unaccounted for, authorities said, per\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nTwo families have also confirmed that they lost their daughters in the flood.\u00a0Lila Bonner and Eloise Peck<\/a>\u00a0died after Camp Mystic was inundated by the rain-swollen floodwaters,\u00a0Fox affiliate KDFW<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0NBC affiliate KXAS<\/a>\u00a0reported. Lila’s death was also confirmed to PEOPLE by her relatives.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nIn a\u00a0statement to PEOPLE<\/a>, shared on Saturday, July 5, Lila\u2019s family said they were “heartbroken.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“In the midst of our unimaginable grief, we ask for privacy and are unable to confirm any details at this time,” they added. \u201cWe ache with all who loved her and are praying endlessly for others to be spared from this tragic loss.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nAdditionally, the\u00a0Kansas City Star<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reported on Sunday that 9-year-old Janie Hunt, a relative of Kansas City Chiefs CEO and chairman Clark Hunt, was killed in the flooding. Clark’s wife, Tavia Hunt, shared a post on her Instagram Stories, writing, \u201cOur hearts are broken by the devastation from the floods in Wimberley and the tragic loss of many lives \u2014\u00a0including a precious little Hunt cousin, along with several friend\u2019s little girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nPer the\u00a0BBC<\/a>, campers Sarah Marsh, a third grader, and 8-year-old Renee Smajstrla also died.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“Renee has been found and while not the outcome we prayed for, the social media outreach likely assisted the first responders in helping to identify her so quickly,” her uncle Shawn Salta wrote on social media, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nNever miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“We are thankful she was with her friends and having the time of her life, as evidenced by this picture from yesterday,” Salta added. “She will forever be living her best life at Camp Mystic.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>Eloise Peck and Lila Bonner.<\/span>OKCM Search & Rescue Team\/Facebook<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Additionally,\u00a0Richard “Dick” Eastland<\/a>, a father of four and the owner of\u00a0the private Christian camp, is among those\u00a0who have died, according to\u00a0Texas Public Radio<\/a>,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and other reports.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“[H]is last act of kindness and sacrifice was working to save the lives of campers,” a friend, Paige W. Sumner, wrote in a tribute to him in\u00a0the local\u00a0Kerrville Daily Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nDick and his wife, Tweety Eastland, had been with the camp since 1974 and were\u00a0third-generation managers<\/a>\u00a0of the facility, which has been in their family since 1939, according to the\u00a0Camp Mystic website<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>Camp Mystic director Richard “Dick” Eastland.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Flooding in the Guadalupe River caused it to reach its\u00a0second-highest height<\/a>\u00a0ever,\u00a0ABC News<\/a>\u00a0reported. The area received at least 10 inches of rain, per San Antonio outlet\u00a0KSAT<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nKerr County, which is approximately 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, has been hit especially hard by the floods. The city of Kerrville declared a\u00a0state of emergency<\/a>\u00a0due to the floods, while Hunt (also in Kerr County) experienced more than six inches of rain in three hours on Friday, which is a “1-in-100-year event” in the region, according to\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n
CNN reported that the flooded region experienced “more than an entire summer’s worth of rain” in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\u201cThis may be a once-in-a-lifetime flood,” Clint Morris, a Kerr County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson, told KSAT. He added that it was “an extremely active scene, countywide.”<\/p>\n
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