Downed trees, cars piled up, and little girls singing hymns.
A Camp Mystic nurse captured these harrowing scenes as she and hundreds of other campers and staffers were evacuated from the devastated scene following Friday’s catastrophic floods.
Devon Paige had been working at the girls’ Christian summer camp when surging waters tore through the area, drowning at least 69 people and leaving 11 girls unaccounted for in Kerr County.
Camp Mystic July 4, 2025 My Evacuation Part 6 On a bus to the reunification center. The girls are singing to try and calm everyone. This is footage from my evacuation and everything I saw. I wish you could see before shots to show how truly devastating it is. #CampMystic #Flood #CampMysticFlood #Rescue #Evacuation #Texas #HuntTx
“I wish you could see ‘before’ shots to show how devastating it is,” she wrote under one video taken from the back of a law enforcement truck, showing cars scattered like toys and rural houses reduced to matchsticks.
In another video, a busload of young girls sing worship songs in between weeping as they ride through the devastation to a reunification center.
“The girls are singing to try and calm everyone,” Page wrote.More than 850 people were rescued within 36 hours of the start of the flash flooding, which came after a sudden storm dumped more than a foot of rain on the region.
The waters tore through the old buildings at Camp Mystic, sweeping away scores of campers and counselors or trapping them in their bunks.Thirty-eight adults and 21 children have been confirmed dead, but 18 adult victims and four children have not yet been identified.
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Five girls from Camp Mystic, ages 8 and 9, are among the dead — along with the camp’s owner.Some 400 first responders from 20 city, state, and national agencies are frantically searching for 11 girls and a counselor who are still missing from the camp, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a Sunday press conference.
When asked why the camps weren’t evacuated before the water level rose, and whether emergency alerts went out in time, Leitha and city manager Dalton Rice declined to comment, abruptly ending Sunday’s 10 a.m. press conference.Rescuers face toppled trees, overturned cars, large piles of mud-filled debris, and other obstacles as they continue their rescue efforts.
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