Camp Mystic Counselors Wrote Names of the Girls They Were Comforting On Their Arms While Waiting for Help: 'I Had to Stay Strong'

Two Camp Mystic counselors are being praised as "guardian angels" for saving their cabin of girls during the deadly Texas storms on July 4. (Credit: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/X)

Two Camp Mystic counselors are being praised as heroes after writing 20 girls' names on their arms and staying up with them all night until they were rescued from the deadly Texas storms over the weekend.

In the early morning hours of July 4, flash floods overwhelmed the Camp Mystic grounds near the Guadalupe River during a severe thunderstorm. Silvana Garza Valdez and Maria Paula Zárate, both 19, protected dozens of girls attending the Christian summer camp. Channel2 Now reported.