Michael McCown sent his 8-year-old daughter Linnie to a summer camp in central Texas trusting she would be safe.

"Our children's lives were cut short because the safeguards in place were not enough," a Campaign for Camp Safety spokesperson is quoted as saying in a press release. "We are asking lawmakers to make sure no other family ever has to endure the pain we have lived with every day since July 4."

"I promised her she would be safe and OK. I told her camp was the safest place she could be and camp was a place she could make new friends and learn new things," said her mother, Carrie Hanna. "She not only wasn't safe. She died." Hanna said she received very poor communication about what had happened to her daughter.

KERRVILLE, Texas — A new foundation called the Heaven’s 27 Fund looks to honor the legacies of the 27 campers and counselors who died during the July 4 floods at Camp Mystic.

When floodwaters rushed through a girl’s summer camp nestled in Hill Country, Michael McCown’s 8-year-old daughter was among 27 campers and

Hunt Independent School district had over a month left until school was scheduled to start on August 20. But after devastating floods swept through Texas Hill Country on July 4, the district’s lone school,

Families who lost daughters in the July 4 flood at Camp Mystic testified before a state Senate committee in favor of SB 1 to require more safety measures at camps.

Experts say conspiracy theories on the Hill Country flood that took out Camp Mystic will compound over time as extreme weather narratives solidify.