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[quote=Anonymous]Here is a succinct explanation of the camp’s abject failure:

“In many cases, salvation was only a hundred feet away, Garrett said, the distance a small child could walk in about thirty seconds. Nearby, a group of nine able-bodied adults stood by as the water rose and Dick launched a last-minute evacuation effort that ultimately failed.

Nobody, investigators believe, thought to get on a loudspeaker and warn campers to run for their lives. Nobody stepped in to assist in the rescue effort as the youngest campers fought to stay alive inside their cabins, sealing the fate of little girls whose deaths leave behind a staggering “impact crater,” as Garrett put it, one that will never be filled. In the end, it seems, Camp Mystic’s culture overrode its employees’ common sense, as CiCi Steward, the mother of missing camper Cile Steward, told lawmakers during some of the week’s most powerful testimony. “Dick Eastland enforced a culture of obedience so powerful that their staff, including the directors of the camp and his children, were afraid to assist helpless children if it meant defying Dick’s orders,” she said.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/camp-mystic-will-not-reopen-2026/[/quote]

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