{"id":273349,"date":"2026-04-30T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273349\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:16:08","slug":"camp-mystic-halts-summer-reopening-after-texas-flood-deaths-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273349\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Mystic halts summer reopening after Texas flood deaths | Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The embattled Camp Mystic organization on Thursday halted plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/camp-mystic-texas-reopening\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reopen this summer<\/a> in a decision that followed months of intensifying outrage by political leaders in Texas and the families of 27 young campers killed last July when massive floodwaters swept through the all-girls Christian camp in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The decision comes after days of pointed questioning by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> lawmakers who are investigating camp officials\u2019 response to the devastating flood on July 4 that claimed the lives of the campers and two teenage counselors. The camp\u2019s owner, Dick Eastland, also died in the flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cNo administrative process or summer season should move forward while families continue to grieve, while investigations continue and while so many Texans still carry the pain of last July\u2019s tragedy,\u201d Camp Mystic said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A spokesperson for the Texas department of state health services confirmed Thursday that the camp withdrew its application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The tragedy is the subject of ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/11\/camp-mystic-lawsuits\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legal cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Associated Press contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The embattled Camp Mystic organization on Thursday halted plans to reopen this summer in a decision that followed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-273349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}