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(NewsNation) — The fig of missing radical successful the cardinal Texas country swept by July 4 flash floods has dramatically dropped from 160 to three, officials announced Saturday evening.
The Kerr County Flood Disaster Joint Information Center credited “extensive follow-up work” by authorities and section agencies for verifying that dozens of radical who had been reported arsenic missing are present categorized arsenic “safe and removed from the list.”
“We are profoundly grateful to the much than 1,000 local, state, and national authorities who person worked tirelessly successful the aftermath of the devastating flood that struck our community,” Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said successful a prepared statement. “Thanks to their bonzer efforts, the fig of individuals antecedently listed arsenic missing has dropped from implicit 160 to three.”
Torrential rains that struck Texas Hill Country aboriginal on July 4 overwhelmed the Guadalupe River, which rapidly roseate much than 20 feet and swept onto little ground. The flooding stormed all-girls Camp Mystic, wherever astatine slightest 27 campers and counselors perished, successful hardest-hit Kerr County. The full fig of radical who died crossed a multi-county portion is astatine slightest 135.
Officials did not connection details astir the 3 radical who are inactive considered unaccounted for.
“Our thoughts stay with the families inactive awaiting news, and we volition proceed to basal with them arsenic efforts persist,” Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring, Jr. said.
