Camp Mystic Owner Files Chapter 11 With $10 Million-$50 Million Debt After 28 Flood Deaths
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Updated · NBC News · Jun 24
Camp Mystic Owner Files Chapter 11 With $10 Million-$50 Million Debt After 28 Flood Deaths
3 articles · Updated · NBC News · Jun 24
Summary
An eight-page Chapter 11 filing in Houston lists Camp Mystic’s debts at $10 million to $50 million and assets at $1 million to $10 million, nearly a year after the Texas Hill Country disaster.
A 115-page state report released earlier this month blamed the camp for inadequate emergency planning, storm preparation, evacuations and incident management during the July 4 floods.
The report said the evacuation effort fell largely to three men — co-owner Dick Eastland, his son and a security guard — and Eastland died in the flooding.
In late April, Camp Mystic withdrew its application to reopen for the summer a day after a legislative hearing where parents of the dead girls pressed lawmakers.
The nearly 100-year-old camp has become a focal point of the wider Guadalupe River tragedy, which killed at least 136 people, including 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the camp.