FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings
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Katherine Ferruzzo had been accepted to the University of Texas at Austin for the fall semester and planned to become a Special Education teacher, her family said.
Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
The “Bubble Inn” bunkhouse hosted the youngest kids at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp caught in the deadly July 4 flooding in the state’s Hill Country.
The mission proved to be much more arduous than expected for her and her small crew of four, all of whom are first tour aviators.
Records released Tuesday show Camp Mystic met state regulations for disaster procedures, but details of the plan remain unclear.
President Donald Trump is touring the devastation left by flash flooding in central Texas amid growing questions about how local officials responded to the crisis as well as questions about the federal response -- including the fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- that he has so far avoided.
At least 120 people have been found dead since heavy rainfall overwhelmed the river and flowed through homes and youth camps in the early morning hours of July 4. Ninety-six of those killed were in the hardest-hit county in central Texas, Kerr County, where the toll includes at least 36 children.