A final 115-page report told Texas lawmakers Camp Mystic lacked the state-required written emergency plans and adequate evacuation measures that could have prevented 25 campers' and two counselors' deaths in the July 4 flood.
Investigators Casey Garrett and Michael Massengale said cascading failures drove the disaster, including communication lapses between state and local authorities, weak evacuation guidance for counselors and haphazard planning by director Richard Eastland, who died trying to rescue campers.
New interviews with surviving campers and officials added detail to the timeline, and an earlier finding said 39 adults at the camp were not engaged in helping evacuate children as floodwaters rose.
A joint legislative committee said lawmakers already addressed all but one deficiency through laws passed last year and plans to tackle the remaining gap — counselors' inability to reach camp owners during the flood — in the session starting in January.