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Five months after deadly Texas Hill Country flooding, new 911 calls reveal panic, desperation and heartbreaking calls.
The two emergency dispatchers on duty were overwhelmed as they were inundated with calls from people facing an increasingly dire situation. Among the more than 400 calls to emergency services were people trapped in or on their homes, summer camp cabins and even trees. Some called repeatedly to let rescuers know where they were and to alert them that their situation was becoming increasingly urgent.
“We’re OK, but we live about a mile from Camp Mystic, and we already have two little girls who came down the river, and we reached them, but I don’t know how many others are out there,” one caller said.
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Rain falls as Irene Valdez visits a makeshift memorial for flood victims along the Guadalupe River, Sunday, July 13, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas. (Eric Gay, AP file/photo)
Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River, lost 25 campers and two teenage counselors in the flooding. Camp director and co-owner Dick Eastland tragically died in the floods while trying to rescue campers.
Britt Eastland, co-director of Camp Mystic and Dick’s son, also called 911, asking that the National Guard be called because up to 40 people were missing, the Associated Press reported.
A counselor at Camp La Junta called water filling a cabin “very quickly,” as the screams of campers could be heard in the background. Everyone in the cabin and the rest of the Camp La Junta campers were rescued, according to the AP.
In another call, a woman frantically said she and two elderly people were stuck in a house and couldn’t get out. She asked for help and told the dispatcher she was scared.
A search and rescue volunteer holds a T-shirt and backpack with the words Camp Mystic on it in Comfort, Texas, July 6, 2025. (Danielle Villasana for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Another caller said there were people floating, screaming for help while others went into their attics and onto their roofs to try to escape the rapidly rising waters.
“We have people in the water, I guess, floating and screaming for help and we can’t get to them,” the caller said. “People are in their attics and on their roads if there is someone who can get to us with a helicopter or something?”
The dispatcher informed her that help was on the way but that the water was “slowing us down a little.”
Campers’ belongings lie outside one of the cabins at Camp Mystic near the Guadalupe River Monday, July 7, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, after a flash flood swept through the area. (Eli Hartman/AP Photo)
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“The tree I’m in is starting to lean and it’s going to fall. Is there a helicopter nearby?” Bradley Perry, a firefighter, calmly told a dispatcher, adding that he saw his wife, Tina, and their RV disappear, according to the AP.
Perry did not survive, making him one of more than 130 people killed in the deadly Fourth of July floods. The AP reported that his wife was found alive, hanging from a tree.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
