Dec. 6, 2025, 5:46 PM ESTBy Marlene LenthangAs catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Texas Hill Country on July 4, dispatchers received multiple frantic 911 calls from Camp Mystic, a Christian sleepaway camp for girls, describing children gone missing and pleading for helicopters to rescue them.Callers described fears that girls may have drowned, dozens of people unaccounted for and roads that had washed away.Twenty-eight people at Camp Mystic — 25 campers, the camp’s owner and director, and two counselors — died in the floods as the Guadalupe River, which skirts the campground, rose quickly amid heavy rainfall.One man called about a missing 7-year-old girl.“Maybe potentially she’s drowned,” he told dispatch. “They said they’re at Camp Mystic at the Guadalupe River.”A director at Camp Mystic called 911 asking for search and rescue.“We’re missing as many as 20 to 40 people,” he said.These are some of nearly 600 calls released this week by the Kerrville Police Department from the catastrophic July 4 flash flooding that killed more than 130 people and devastated Kerr County.“The release of the recordings is a painful reminder to our community of the catastrophic flood of July 4. We continue to pray for all those affected by this disaster,” Camp Mystic said in a statement to NBC News.