Watch dramatic rescues of girls washed away at summer camp by a Texas flood and check out the latest updates

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NTB Staff

Jul 5, 2025

Texas saw devastating flash floods yesterday and the body count is still rising from the storm.

As of this morning, 24 people have been confirmed dead after the floods hit a girls' summer camp in Hunt, Texas, and the surrounding area. More than 20 of the girls from Camp Mystic are still missing.

At another camp, Heart O' the Hills, the director was killed in the flooding.

The camp director and co-owner of Heart O' the Hills, a girls camp in Hunt, Texas, died in the catastrophic flooding that struck the area overnight into the Fourth of July holiday, according to an announcement from the camp.

Jane Ragsdale was the "heart and soul" of the camp, according to its website.

Untold numbers are missing from the surrounding areas as well.

Here are some videos from the floods and aftermath along multiple rivers in Texas.

It's not even raining in these videos, the flash floods came from way upstream and overwhelmed the area.

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To demonstrate the strength of the water and how fast this flood hit, check this out.

This young lady was stranded in a tree TWELVE MILES away from the camp! She had washed 12 miles from where she started!

An entire RV campsite was washed away.

Rescue efforts lasted from early Friday morning and are still going now. Watch as chopper pilots rescue and drop off girls rescued from one of the camps along the river.

These guys are heroes.

Tragically, the death toll will almost certainly continue to rise.


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