Searchers used helicopters, boats and drones to search for victims in flash floods that tore across Texas’s Hill Country at the start of the Fourth of July weekend.

At least 70 people are dead, including more than 20 children, after heavy rainfall led to flash flooding in Texas Hill Country during the early hours of Friday, July 4, 2025. The intense rain

Torrential rain and flash floods hit parts of central Texas on Friday. At least 24 people have died in the floods, and more than 20 children are missing from Camp Mystic. The National Weather Service said the Guadalupe River at Hunt hit its second-highest height on record.