{"id":4852,"date":"2025-08-29T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:41:37","slug":"search-for-missing-continues-as-texas-floods-kill-51-including-15-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing continues as Texas floods kill 51, including 15 children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hundreds of rescuers have been deployed to search for people missing in central Texas, after flash floods killed 51 people, including 15 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst affected area is Kerr County where 43 people havedied and where 27 children remain missing from a Christian youth camp located along the River Guadalupe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe work continues, and will continue, until everyone is found,\u201d promised Larry Leitha, the sheriff of Kerr County.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People have also been confirmed dead in other parts of the state, including Travis County and Tom Green County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple flash flood warnings remain in place over the weekend in central Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 850 people have been rescued so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a news conference on Saturday afternoon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he had signed an expanded disaster declaration to boost search efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said officials would be relentless in ensuring they locate \u201cevery single person who\u2019s been a victim of this event\u201d, adding that \u201cwe will stop when the job is completed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It remains a search and rescue mission, officials said, not a recovery effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They said rescuers were going up and down the Guadalupe River to try to find people who may have been swept away by the floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US President Donald Trump said his administration was working closely with local authorities to respond to the emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watch: Texans face flood aftermath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forecasters have warned that central Texas may see more flooding this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Weather Service (NWS) said the area could see 2 to 5in (5cm to 12cm) of rain on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up to 10in of rain was possible in some areas badly affected by Friday\u2019s deluge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much of the rescue has focused on a large all-girls\u2019 Christian summer camp called Camp Mystic, located along the banks of the Guadalupe River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick told the BBC\u2019s Radio 4 PM programme many of 27 missing girls were \u201cunder the age of 12\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictures from the camp show it in disarray, with blankets, mattresses, teddy bears and other belongings caked in mud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many were asleep when the river rose more than 26ft (8m) in less than an hour in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an email to parents of the roughly 750 campers, Camp Mystic said that if they had not been contacted directly, their child had been accounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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