911 calls from deadly Texas Hill Country flood reveal heartbreaking pleas

Five months aft the deadly Texas Hill Country flood, recently released 911 calls uncover panic, desperation and heartbreaking pleas.

The 2 exigency dispatchers connected work were overwhelmed arsenic they were inundated with calls from individuals dealing with an progressively dire situation. Among the much than 400 calls to exigency services were radical stuck successful oregon connected their homes, their summertime campy cabins and adjacent trees. Some called aggregate times to fto rescuers cognize wherever they were and to alert them that their situations were becoming progressively urgent.

"We're okay, but we unrecorded astir a mile down the roadworthy from Camp Mystic, and we've already got 2 small girls who person travel down the river, and we've gotten to them, but I'm not definite however galore other are retired there," 1 caller said.

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Rain falls arsenic Irene Valdez visits a make-shift memorial for flood victims on the Guadalupe River, Sunday, July 13, 2025, successful Kerrville, Texas. (Eric Gay, File/AP Photo)

Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summertime campy located on the Guadalupe River, mislaid 25 campers and 2 teenage counselors successful the floods. The camp's longtime manager and co-owner, Dick Eastland, tragically died successful the floods portion trying to rescue the campers.

Britt Eastland, the co-director of Camp Mystic and Dick's son, called 911 arsenic well, asking for the National Guard to beryllium called due to the fact that arsenic galore arsenic 40 radical were missing, The Associated Press reported.

A counsellor astatine Camp La Junta called arsenic h2o filled a compartment "super fast," arsenic screams of campers could beryllium heard successful the background. Everyone successful the compartment and the remainder of the campers astatine Camp La Junta were rescued, according to the AP.

In different call, a pistillate frantically says that she and 2 aged radical were trapped successful a location and could not get out. She begged for assistance and told the dispatcher that she was scared.

A hunt and rescue unpaid holds a T-shirt and backpack with the words Camp Mystic connected them successful Comfort, Texas connected July 6, 2025.   (Danielle Villasana for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Yet different caller said that determination were radical floating by screaming for assistance arsenic others went into their attics and onto their roofs successful an effort to flight the rapidly rising waters.

"We person radical successful water, I guess, floating that are screaming for assistance and we, we can't get to them," the caller said. "People are successful their attics and connected their routes if there's anybody that tin get to america with a chopper oregon something?"

The dispatcher informed her that assistance was connected the mode but that the h2o was "slowing america down a small bit."

Campers belongings beryllium extracurricular 1 of Camp Mystic's cabins adjacent the Guadalupe River, Monday, July 7, 2025, successful Hunt, Texas, aft a flash flood swept done the area. (Eli Hartman/AP Photo)

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"The histrion I’m successful is starting to lean, and it’s going to fall. Is determination a chopper close?" Bradley Perry, a firefighter, calmly told a dispatcher, adding that helium saw his wife, Tina, and their RV lavation away, according to the AP.

Perry did not survive, making him 1 of the much than 130 radical killed successful the deadly July 4 floods. The AP reported that his woman was aboriginal recovered alive, clinging to a tree.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.