00:00Heartbreaking new details about how and why lives were lost at Camp Mystic last year.
00:05The girls' summer camp where catastrophic flooding killed 27 campers and staffers.
00:09It comes from a hearing in a legal battle between victims' families and the camp's owners.
00:14Camp director Edward Eastland said on the stand that he didn't see official warnings about the storm that resulted in
00:19the overflow of the Guadalupe River.
00:21Eastland confirmed that the staff had no meetings about the potential danger, and they did not make the call to
00:27evacuate until it was too late.
00:29But perhaps what's even worse, he said even if they had decided to evacuate sooner, Camp Mystic didn't have a
00:35detailed flood evacuation plan.
00:37Near the end of his testimony, he admitted that lives could have been saved if staff had acted sooner.
00:42The court proceedings come just two weeks ahead of the camp's planned opening this year.
00:46Camp Mystic has applied with state regulators to renew its license so that it can open an elevated area that
00:52didn't flood.
00:53According to camp operators, nearly 900 girls have registered to attend.
00:56One victim's mother says it shouldn't be allowed to reopen, given that based on the testimony she heard at the
01:02hearing, they are incapable of taking care of children.
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