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Richard Luscombe

Texas camp leader waited over an hour after flood warning to evacuate

search and rescue team members speak with each other
Volunteer search and rescue teams from Mexico confer during operations at the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on 10 July. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The adult leader of Camp Mystic, the Texas summer camp where 27 children and counselors died in the Hill Country floods, waited more than an hour after receiving a severe flood warning before initiating an evacuation, it was disclosed on Monday.

Richard “Dick” Eastland, who had run the popular all-girls, Christian-values sleepaway camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River with his family since the 1980s, was among the fatalities after a wall of water rushed through the camp early on 4 July.

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