Parents Desperately Seeking Answers On Missing Campers After Texas Flood

Parents are searching for accusation astir their children's whereabouts arsenic dozens stay missing aft a deadly, devastating stream flood swept done a section Christian camp. Officials opportunity betwixt 23 and 25 girls from Camp Mystic, an all-girls backstage Christian campy successful Hunt, Texas, stay missing.

State officials confirmed Friday nighttime that astatine slightest 25 group are dead, including adults and children. Among nan deaths, 24 were reported successful Kerr County and 1 was successful Kendall County.

First responders scan nan banks of nan Guadalupe River for individuals swept distant by flooding successful Ingram, Texas, Friday, July 4, 2025. (Michel Fortier/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

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Families person lined up astatine reunification centers hoping to spot their loved ones. According to nan Kerr County Sheriff's Office, Ingram Elementary School successful Ingram, Texas, and The Arcadia Live Theater successful Kerrville, Texas, are being utilized arsenic reunification centers. 

Families statement up astatine a reunification halfway aft flash flooding it nan area, Friday, July 4, 2025, successful Ingram, Texas.  (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Camp Mystic, which had astir 750 attendees, reportedly told parents that if they had not been contacted straight it meant that their kid was accounted for.

Ellen Toranzo told Fox News Digital that her daughter, Greta Toranzo, is 1 of nan campers who went missing during nan flood. Carrie Hanna besides confirmed to Fox News Digital that her daughter, Hadley, is unaccounted for.

Split of Hadley Hanna and Greta Toranzo, who stay missing aft floods successful Kerr County, Texas. (Photos courtesy of Carrie Hanna and Ellen Toranzo)

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Elinor Lester, 13, told the Associated Press she was evacuated pinch her cabinmates by chopper aft wading done floodwaters. Lester besides said that nan "camp was wholly destroyed" successful nan disastrous flood. The outlet noted that Lester was housed connected higher crushed astatine nan camp, known arsenic Senior Hill. Younger campers, who tin statesman attending astatine property 8, are housed on nan riverbanks and were nan first to flood, according to nan Associated Press. 

The National Guard was deployed successful Texas to respond aft dense rainfall connected Friday greeting caused the Guadalupe River to rise astir 30 feet successful 45 minutes. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later said that members of nan U.S. Coast Guard were deployed to assistance successful evacuations.

Helicopters and subject vehicles were utilized for evacuations. As of Friday night, 237 group had been evacuated, including 167 by helicopter.

A drone position shows flooded houses, pursuing torrential rains that unleashed flash floods on nan Guadalupe River successful San Angelo, Texas, U.S., June 4, 2025, successful this surface drawback obtained from a societal media video. (Patrick Keely via Reuters)

Texas deployed much than 1,000 authorities responders and complete 800 vehicles and instrumentality assets, according to Gov. Greg Abbott's office. The politician besides declared an emergency for 15 counties, and his agency said that much could beryllium added to nan list.

"This is simply a clip erstwhile we, arsenic a state, request God much than ever," Abbott said successful a statement. "The 1 point I perceive nan astir are nan prayers that are being sent for those who are successful harm’s way."

Families are reunited astatine a reunification halfway aft flash flooding deed nan area, Friday, July 4, 2025, successful Ingram, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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President Donald Trump told reporters connected Friday that nan floods were "shocking" and "a unspeakable thing." He besides said nan authorities would person national assistance and that his management was moving pinch Abbott. 

The Kerr County Sheriff's Office is encouraging those pinch missing loved ones to telephone nan Red Cross astatine 1-800-733-2767 for information.

Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch and Landon Mion contributed to this report.