911 calls capture panic at Camp Mystic as deadly Texas floods swept away campers

As catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Texas Hill Country on July 4, dispatchers received multiple frantic 911 calls 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 at Camp Mystic — 25 campers, the camp’s owner and director, and two counselors — died in the floods as the Guadalupe River , which skirts the campground, rose quickly amid heavy rainfall.

One man called about a missing 7-year-old girl.

“Maybe potentially she’s drowned,” he told dispatch. “They said they’re at Camp Mystic at the Guadalupe River.”

A director at Camp Mystic called 911 asking for