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As catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Texas Hill Country on July 4, dispatchers received multiple frantic 911 calls<\/a> from Camp Mystic, a Christian sleepaway camp for girls, describing children gone missing and pleading for helicopters to rescue them.
Callers described fears that girls may have drowned, dozens of people unaccounted for and roads that had washed away.
Twenty-eight people<\/a> at Camp Mystic \u2014 25 campers, the camp\u2019s <\/strong>owner and director, and two counselors \u2014 died in the floods as the Guadalupe River<\/a>, which skirts the campground, rose quickly amid heavy rainfall.
One man called about a missing 7-year-old girl.
\u201cMaybe potentially she\u2019s drowned,\u201d he told dispatch. \u201cThey said they\u2019re at Camp Mystic at the Guadalupe River.\u201d
A director <\/strong>at Camp Mystic called 911 asking for search and rescue.
\u201cWe\u2019re missing as many as 20 to 40 people,\u201d he said.
These are some of nearly 600 calls released this week by the Kerrville Police Department from the catastrophic July 4 flash flooding<\/a> that killed more than 130 people and devastated Kerr County.
\u201cThe release of the recordings is a painful reminder to our community of the catastrophic flood of July 4. We continue to pray for all those affected by this disaster,\u201d Camp Mystic said in a statement to NBC News.
A security guard at Mystic described the dire conditions as he called 911 for help and asked for the National Guard.
\u201cWe\u2019re out of power, hardly have any cell service. Here at Camp Mystic in Hunt, please. If you can call the National Guard, please,\u201d he said.
\u201cIt\u2019s totally gone, the roadway is gone,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe only way out here for search and rescue is going to be helicopter. We\u2019re going to have a landing zone set up.\u201d
One woman also warned dispatch that road travel was nearly impossible.
\u201cI have a feeling the only way you\u2019re gonna get to us is a helicopter,\u201d she told dispatch.
Another woman called from Camp Mystic saying she was with a 59-year-old woman who had broken ribs. She said she had no cell service, but was able to reach dispatch using the SOS feature on her phone.
\u201cWe have no way of communication with anyone, but we do have someone who is severely hurt. But the roads are flooded, so I\u2019m not sure if there\u2019s a way to drive to get to us,\u201d the caller said.
Dispatch responded, \u201cYeah, I believe we tried to go out there but we\u2019re not able to make location.\u201d
The caller said she was at Senior Hill, the highest point at the camp, surrounded by water and unable to reach the camp director or other staff.
\u201cThere\u2019s water all around us. We have no way of going in or out,\u201d she said.
There were several harrowing calls about young campers missing or found fleeing the area.
A caller who lives in Hunt described to 911 how she helped rescue two girls from the camp.
\u201cThe flood is up to our house right now. We\u2019re OK, but we live about a mile down the road from Camp Mystic, and we\u2019ve already got two little girls who have come down the river, and we\u2019ve gotten to them, but I\u2019m not sure how many else are out there,\u201d she said.
Some callers were locals concerned about the welfare of campers.
\u201cWe are back in Hunt, but I have some friends with us who have a kid at Camp Mystic, and we have no idea what\u2019s going on,\u201d one caller told dispatch. \u201cHave you heard anything? What\u2019s going on at Camp Mystic?\u201d
The dispatcher said they hadn\u2019t heard anything, but that rescue teams were on their way.
Another caller said: \u201cI\u2019m just checking \u2014 I just heard from somebody at Camp Mystic that the highway is washed out and they need assistance by air, and I assume that y\u2019all are on that, and I don\u2019t want to make more trouble.\u201d
Dispatch also received calls pleading for help at Camp La Junta, a boys camp in Kerr County, about 6 miles north of Camp Mystic.
One woman called and said in a shaken voice: \u201cWe\u2019ve got cabins that are starting to fill up. What do we do?\u201d
Dispatch urged them to get to the highest point of the camp and do a head count.
\u201cWell, we\u2019ve got, we\u2019ve got kids down in cabins that are down halfway underwater,\u201d the caller responded.
Dispatch said a strike team with boats was headed that way.
\u201cWe need them very, very, very much at Camp La Junta,\u201d the woman said.
Another call came from an employee at the camp <\/strong>who reported a structure collapse there.
\u201cWe\u2019ve got cabins flooded. I can\u2019t get to kids,\u201d he said.
When asked what building collapsed, he said: \u201cCabin 14. I think, I think those kids are all out. But there\u2019s other cabins flooded. I can\u2019t get to them. There\u2019s a lake between me and all the cabins.\u201d
\u201cThe owner of the camp is trudging through water trying to find kids, make sure everyone\u2019s safe. But I truly don\u2019t know how severe the situation is. But it\u2019s not good,\u201d he added.
Another caller from Camp La Junta told dispatch, \u201cWe are 100% trapped, hanging on to the rafters right now.\u201d
\u201cI\u2019m not worried about myself. I\u2019m worried about these kids right here because we can\u2019t have one of these kids falling under the water,\u201d the caller said.
Camp La Junta has said<\/a> that every camper, counselor and staff member survived.
The families of six children and two counselors killed in the flooding at Camp Mystic filed two lawsuits in November<\/a> against the camp\u2019s owners and others, alleging negligence. <\/strong>Attorneys for some of the families said that the camp was \u201cin a region known as \u2018Flash Flood Alley.\u2019\u201d
At the time, Jeff Ray, an attorney for Camp Mystic, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth <\/a>the magnitude of the flooding was unexpected and there was \u201cmisinformation\u201d in the suits.
\u201cWe intend to demonstrate and prove that this sudden surge of floodwaters far exceeded any previous flood in the area by several magnitudes, that it was unexpected and that no adequate warning systems existed in the area,\u201d Ray said.
Camp Mystic announced this week that it plans to reopen next summer<\/a> with new safety measures in place, including more than 100 flood monitoring units along Cypress Lake and the south and north forks of the Guadalupe River that will provide \u201cearly detection of high-water events.\u201d
In a message to parents, Camp Mystic said this year\u2019s events will be at a newer Cypress Lake location.
Other safety measures include hand-held two-way radios in each cabin to provide weather alerts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, back-up satellite internet and \u201chigher-capacity generators to maintain power in critical areas.\u201d
Marlene Lenthang is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
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