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Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.
A Camp Mystic program director said she went from sleeping in her bed early Friday morning to standing on the rooftop less than an hour later.
Eastland had been part of the private Christian girls' camp since purchasing it in 1974 and had served as its director.
Eastland, 70, was the camp director and bought the camp in 1974. When floodwaters swept through his Christen summer camp, he ...
Katherine Ferruzzo, a recent Memorial High graduate and incoming University of Texas freshman, is the sole Camp Mystic ...
In the early morning of July 4, floods ravaged the Texas Hill Country. In less than an hour, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet ...
Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central ...
An eight-year-old girl and the director of an all-girls' summer camp are among the victims of flash floods in Texas that have ...
Taaffe called the counselors at Camp Mystic “heroes” and wore a tie to honor them and the young girls who died during the ...
This came as it was revealed that Camp Mystic co-owner Richard "Dick" Eastland died while heroically trying to save campers from being carried away by the deadly floodwaters in Texas. Eastland, 70, ...