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(NewsNation) — As the search continues for much missing girls from Camp Mystic aft floods ripped done Central Texas aboriginal Friday, 1 parent shared her consciousness of alleviation aft her daughters were rescued.
Serena Aldrich told NewsNation she is "grateful" and "blessed" that someway her kids — ages 12 and 9 — were unharmed.
"They're gladsome to beryllium location and disquieted astir their friends," she said. "They are strong."
Officials said that 24 were confirmed dead, and that 23 to 25 girls were reported missing from the all-girls campy erstwhile the country adjacent the Guadalupe River was deed with up to 10 inches of rain. Several of the cabins were reportedly flooded, portion others washed away. The roads surrounding the cabins were washed out.
The country was enactment nether a flash flood warning. By Friday morning, the Guadalupe River successful occidental Kerr County had reached 29 feet, the second-highest level connected record.
Asked if her girls were fixed immoderate informing oregon alarm of immoderate benignant erstwhile the flash flooding began, Aldrich was told they didn't person anything.
"No, my 12-year-old connected Senior Hill, they were woken up by lightning and thunder," added Aldrich.
"My 9-year-old connected the flats was woken up by a friend, h2o coming into the cabin, and their counselors saved each those girls' lives. They broke windows to get them retired the backmost of the compartment and backmost towards cabins that enactment up towards an embankment that goes each the mode up to Sky High, wherever the Mystic motion is. And the girls ended up climbing each the mode to Sky High. Half of them had nary shoes on, but they were safe."
Aldrich's daughters were brought to information by taking a chopper thrust — their 2nd 1 ever — to get distant from the camp. She is not definite wherever they were taken to, but they were sent by autobus to Ingram Elementary School.
"I knew arsenic of 9 a.m. this greeting that they were harmless and accounted for," Aldrich said.
In addition, Aldrich's daughters knew immoderate of the different girls who remained missing, arsenic they are immoderate of the youngest oregon first-year campers, whom they had met during their activities.
Aldrich says that for those parents of the girls who are unaccounted for, she is praying for them. She said she besides wishes she could undo this traumatic lawsuit for her daughters.
Serena Aldrich attended Camp Mystic arsenic a child, and her sister besides spent clip arsenic a counsellor astatine the facility.
Officials said 237 radical had been rescued truthful far, including 167 by helicopter.
