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  • 7/9/2025
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00:00As of 8 a.m. this morning, central time, there are 95 deceased.
00:05I'm going to kind of break down the numbers for you.
00:07On adults, there's 59, unidentified 14.
00:11Children, 36, unidentified 13.
00:16Camp Mystic currently still has missing five campers and one counselor.
00:23Officials report there are 161 missing people in Kerr County area.
00:27Community members are asked not to conduct debris management of their property until directed by law enforcement.
00:35There is also a no-burn ban in Kerr County at this time until further notice.
00:40As with other significant events that our emergencies services encounter, this incident will be reviewed.
00:47You have my word.
00:49When or if necessary, if improvements need to be made, improvements will be made.
00:54What I'd like to do right now is kind of give you a breakdown.
00:56I believe the latest report I had, we over have 2,100 people out here at some capacity on this incident.
01:05As far as Kerr County Sheriff's Office right now, what our office is currently doing, it's kind of an all-hands-on-deck.
01:11Everybody we got are out here, but also we have additional 2,000-plus people helping us.
01:16How do you account for that lapse of time?
01:18What happened and what could have happened in that time?
01:20As I've said earlier, with every significant event, with every emergency, we're going to have to, there's going to be an after action.
01:31Please, y'all, listen to those words.
01:33After action, okay.
01:34Those questions are going to be answered.
01:37I believe those questions need to be answered to the family of the misloved ones, to the public, to the people that put me in this office.
01:44Those need to be, and I want that answer, and we're going to get that answer, and I know that's going to be asked over and over.
01:49Please understand that.
01:51You know, we don't have, we're not running, we're not going to hide from everything.
01:53That's going to be checked into at a later time.
01:55I wish I could tell you that time.
01:57I don't know that time.
01:58Let me share something with y'all.
01:59One of the main things I've been doing is going and visiting the family.
02:02We still have some of those misloved ones here.
02:04I wish y'all would bear with me in that, okay?
02:07Bear with me.
02:07We'll get them.
02:08I can't tell you in a week or two, okay?
02:10We're going to get them.
02:11I'm not trying to deflect them, okay?
02:13My primary, I mean, I ask you, I've been in this business 36 years.
02:17I don't know if any of y'all, how many of y'all have gave notifications, death notifications.
02:21I've done them.
02:22What is worse, a death notification or telling somebody, I don't know where your loved one was?
02:27That's my priority, okay?
02:28Now, please understand that.

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