119 people died in Kerr County on July 4. Coverage focused overwhelmingly on the 27 Camp Mystic girls. A volunteer firefighter who tried to save people at an RV camp in Ingram — where more people actually died — has barely been mentioned. Some survivors feel forgotten.
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Morgan Chesky gives voice to a perspective he's heard from people back home in Kerrville: 119 people died in Kerr County, but the media's overwhelming focus has been on the 27 Camp Mystic girls. He describes meeting a volunteer firefighter who tried to save people at an RV camp in Ingram, where the death toll actually exceeded Camp Mystic's — and who has received virtually no coverage. Lester Holt doesn't dismiss the critique; he acknowledges that the concentration of deaths in one place from a single institutional context drove the story's focus, but reminds listeners of the 911 calls the Dateline episode played: callers from multiple points along the Guadalupe River, many of them saying they were going to die. 'In some cases they did,' Holt says. The segment is a quiet moral corrective embedded in an episode that is itself about accountability.
The total death toll from the July 4, 2025 flood in Kerr County was 119 people, far beyond Camp Mystic alone.
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