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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jim Vertuno

Camp Mystic director cries ‘we tried our hardest’ in tearful apology to families of 27 campers killed in flood

A director of the all-girls Christian camp in the Texas Hill Country where 25 campers and two counselors were killed in a 2025 flood offered a tearful apology Tuesday as state lawmakers questioned owners' efforts to reopen in May.

Dozens of the girls’ family members sat feet behind Edward Eastland, a camp director and a member of the family that owns the 100-year-old camp along the Guadalupe River, as he told them: “We tried our hardest that night. It wasn’t enough to save your daughters.”

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