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Texas Lawmakers to Question Camp Mystic’s Owners Over Deadly Flood

“It wasn’t just Mystic,” she said at the end of her presentation, adding that other camps had been “lucky” that nothing worse had happened to them.

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Texas Lawmakers to Question Camp Mystic’s Owners Over Deadly Flood

Investigators told lawmakers that the camp, where 28 people died in a flood last July, did not prepare for an emergency as required by the state.

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A row of white crosses outside the “Bubble Inn” cabin at the Camp Mystic girls’ summer camp, which is nestled along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country.

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Owners and employees of Camp Mystic are set to face questions Tuesday from Texas lawmakers investigating their handling of catastrophic flooding last year, as the state considers whether to grant the camp a license to reopen.

Their testimony is expected to come on the second day of hearings at the State Capitol in Austin about the tragedy at Camp Mystic, where 25 campers, two counselors and the camp director died after the Guadalupe River flooded camp buildings on July 4.

On Monday, members of the Eastland family, which owns the camp, listened silently in a small hearing room as legislative investigators told lawmakers that the camp did not have an evacuation plan as required by the state.

Camp Mystic has faced a renewed round of scrutiny from state officials and police. Last week, state health officials said the camp

needed to make major revisions to its emergency plans

in order to receive a license to partially reopen in May in an area that did not flood.

Members of the Eastland family, including a night security guard on duty during the flood, were asked to be ready to testify on Tuesday, according to a camp spokesman. The camp also faces lawsuits brought by the families of the victims. The families have argued that the owners were negligent in their preparations for an emergency and in their response to the flooding.

At Monday’s hearing, Casey Garrett, one of the legislative investigators, presented a report that said Camp Mystic’s procedures only included emergency shelter plans and did not include instructions on how to evacuate during a disaster.

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