{"id":1493,"date":"2025-07-07T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:47:48","slug":"families-grieve-as-identities-of-camp-mystic-flood-vic-tims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Families Grieve As Identities Of Camp Mystic Flood Vic.tims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Texas Camp Flood Tragedy<\/strong><br>Flash floods struck Camp Mystic, a private Christian girls\u2019 camp in Hunt, Texas, on July 4th, killing five young girls and leaving eleven others missing. The Guadalupe River surged 30 feet above normal, devastating the area. \u201cRichard \u2018Dick\u2019 Eastland, 70,\u201d the camp\u2019s director, died while trying to save campers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lives Lost<\/strong><br>The victims include Renee Smajstrla, 8 (\u201cShe will forever be living her best life at Camp Mystic\u201d), Sarah Marsh, 8 (\u201cShe will live on in our hearts forever\u201d), and Eloise Peck, 8 (\u201cShe passed away with her cabinmate and best friend Lila Bonner\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beyond the Camp<\/strong><br>Two sisters, Blair (13) and Brooke Harber (11), also died nearby. \u201cWe will honor Blair and Brooke\u2019s lives,\u201d said Father Joshua Whitfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ongoing Search &amp; Response<\/strong><br>As of Sunday, eleven girls and a counselor remain missing. \u201cI just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County,\u201d Donald Trump announced on Truth Social.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Camp Flood TragedyFlash floods struck Camp Mystic, a private Christian girls\u2019 camp in Hunt, Texas, on July 4th, killing five young girls and leaving eleven others missing. The Guadalupe River surged 30 feet above normal, devastating the area. \u201cRichard \u2018Dick\u2019 Eastland, 70,\u201d the camp\u2019s director, died while trying to save campers. Lives LostThe victims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}