Tearful parents of girls who died at Camp Mystic during Texas flooding last month, pleaded with state lawmakers Wednesday to toughen safety at summer camps.

An emotional plea resonated through the state capitol as parents who lost their daughters in the Camp Mystic flood disaster urged lawmakers to e

The Fourth of July flood bore a striking similarity to the Hill Country flood that killed 10 summer campers in 1987. In the following years, officials took little action to protect against the next storm.

In a timeline sent to lawmakers — which Brown’s team also shared with KXAN — the county laid out what it was getting from the National Weather Service (NWS) and emergency