Camp La Junta

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: “We’ve got cabins that are starting to fill up. What do we do?”

Dispatch urged them to get to the highest point of the camp and do a head count.

“Well, we’ve got, we’ve got kids down in cabins that are down halfway underwater,” the caller responded.

Dispatch said a strike team with boats was headed that way.

“We need them very, very, very much at Camp La Junta,” the woman said.

Another call came from an employee at the camp who reported a structure collapse there.

“We’ve got cabins flooded. I can’t get to kids,” he said.

When asked what building collapsed, he said: “Cabin 14. I think, I think those kids are all out. But there’s other cabins flooded. I can’t get to them. There’s a lake between me and all the cabins.”

“The owner of the camp is trudging through water trying to find kids, make sure everyone’s safe. But I truly don’t know how severe the situation is. But it’s not good,” he added.

Another caller from Camp La Junta told dispatch, “We are 100% trapped, hanging on to the rafters right now.”

“I’m not worried about myself. I’m worried about these kids right here because we can’t have one of these kids falling under the water,” the caller said.

Camp La Junta has said that every camper, counselor and staff member survived.

Aftermath

The families of six children and two counselors killed in the flooding at Camp Mystic filed two lawsuits in November against the camp’s owners and others, alleging negligence. Attorneys for some of the families said that the camp was “in a region known as ‘Flash Flood Alley.’”

At the time, Jeff Ray, an attorney for Camp Mystic, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth the magnitude of the flooding was unexpected and there was “misinformation” in the suits.

“We 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,” Ray said.