‘We Started Writing Our Names on Our Skin’: Texas Camp Counselors Get 20 Girls to Safety

Two young women kept their girls focused amid the storms until helicopters arrived to evacuate them.
‘We Started Writing Our Names on Our Skin’: Texas Camp Counselors Get 20 Girls to Safety
A view of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on July 5, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images
Alicia Márquez
Alicia Márquez
Breaking News Reporter
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Two young camp counselors from Mexico helped the 20 girls in their charge survive last week’s devastating flash floods in Kerr County, Texas, by keeping their heads amid the chaos and keeping the girls entertained.
Heavy rains that hit Hill Country in central Texas starting July 3 caused severe flooding that has claimed the lives of more than 100 people.