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Dick Eastland was swept away by the deadly current as he and his son went from cabin to cabin to get campers to higher ground ...
Eastland, 70, was the camp director and bought the camp in 1974. When floodwaters swept through his Christen summer camp, he ...
Katherine Ferruzzo, a recent Memorial High graduate and incoming University of Texas freshman, is the sole Camp Mystic ...
A Camp Mystic program director said she went from sleeping in her bed early Friday morning to standing on the rooftop less ...
Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.
In the early morning of July 4, floods ravaged the Texas Hill Country. In less than an hour, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet ...
"The counselors were heroes and saved so many lives putting their campers before their own," Camp Mystic program director Elizabeth Sweet said Monday.
Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central ...
With rain reportedly rising more than 20 feet in less than two hours, campers and camp counselors were given little to no time to get to safe ground.
Home of the Brave
A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la ...