Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

Hundreds of children were at the all-girls summer camp when flood waters hit Friday, leaving a dozen missing and several confirmed dead.

Before Camp Mystic was destroyed in floods on July 4, taking the lives of at least 27 young girls, this Hill Country camp was a second home for many girls throughout the decades. Former campers and counselors share some of their favorite foods and traditions from the Camp Mystic dining hall.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors.

In the Texas Hill Country, as the search for loved ones lost to the Guadalupe River ends, the search for their belongings begins.

Camp Mystic is a private Christian girls summer camp in the Texas Hill Country. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick reports around 750 girls were at the camp when the flood hit Friday.

Texas Rangers have identified Kellyanne Elizabeth Lytal, 8, as a victim of Camp Mystic after 27 girls went missing after the Guadalupe River flooded the Christian retreat.

The Lost Stuffy Project is helping kids impacted by the floods in Texas. As families come together to grieve, recover and pick up the pieces following the July 4 flash floods in Central Texas that ...

Seven of the families who lost children at Camp Mystic are from Dallas. Best friends Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 , recently completed the second grade at Bradfield Elementary School in ...

Two 8-year-old girls are the first from Austin to be publicly identified as victims of the raging flood waters that swept through Camp Mystic, their families and close friends confirm.. Linnie ...