Texas Summer Camp Evacuates Dozens Before Deadly Flooding

Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.

Other camps were not as fortunate. The flooding followed a sudden storm that caused the Guadalupe River to spill over its banks, flooding Camp Mystic, a Christian children’s summer camp. 27 campers and counselors died at the site, according to an announcement. (RELATED: Death Toll Rises To 70 In Texas Flood Disaster, Including 15 Children At Christian Summer Camp)

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The total death toll has now risen to at least 82, including those at Camp Mystic.

“Our hearts go out to all of the other camps,” Winters told KENS5. “If you’re in the camp and conference industry, you’re a family. And so we are all trying to pull together, trying to get information from the other camps and trying to help each other where we can.”

All the campers at Mo-Ranch were reunited with families, Winters said.