Sisters Lilly and Paige Kummerfeld are pictured with Camp Mystic co-owner and camp director Dick Eastland. Eastland died while reportedly trying to save girls from his camp. The Kummerfeld girls made it home safely. (Contributed Photo)

A beloved summer camp tradition became a nightmare when two East Texas sisters were swept up in a deadly flash flood.

Sisters Lilly and Paige Kummerfeld, who are students at The Brook Hill School in Bullard, shared the terrifying night, the lives lost and the rescuers who risked everything to bring them home.

“We just thought it was a normal thunderstorm,” Lilly said. “We didn’t know about any of the destruction or the horrible things happening at that moment.”

 

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