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Wed Jul 9 2025

A flood engulfed an all-boys camp in Texas. Staff rushed to save them.

Everett Higgins, 9, embraced his mother, Kelley Hughes, after they were reunited following a catastrophic flood in Kerr County, Texas, on July 4. Higgins was one of hundreds of children who were evacuated from Camp La Junta.

Taking swift action, counselors at an all-boys summer camp in the Texas Hill Country managed to evacuate hundreds of children from a raging flood.

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