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Investigators: Camp Mystic lacked written emergency plans required by state code
Summary
Judge Massengale told the committees that Camp Mystic's posted materials amounted to a 'shelter in place' paragraph, not the written, posted evacuation procedures required by Texas Administrative Code Section 265.15, and investigators found staff and campers were not trained or assigned emergency duties.
Judge Michael Massengale summarized the committee's first top-line conclusion: Camp Mystic did not have written emergency plans that complied with state requirements.
"Camp Mystic did not have written emergency plans that complied with the state's requirements," Massengale told the joint committee, citing the requirements in 25 Texas Administrative Code Section 265.15 that plans be written, posted in each occupied building, include procedures for evacuation of each occupied building and facility, identify assigned staff responsibilities, and document staff training. Massengale said the camp's posted materials instructed campers to "never wander away from your cabin" and contained no evacuation procedures for the flats where most victims were located.
He and investigator Casey Garrett told members that even if some evacuation methods existed in the knowledge of a single leader, plans that exist only in one person's head do not meet the state's written-plan requirement and are insufficient in a crisis.
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