Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.

The duo offered a place where parents knew their daughters would be enriched and happy. During the tragic floods, Dick Eastland died trying to save them.

Camp Mystic co-owner Dick Eastland, described as "one of the most selfless men," reportedly died trying to rescue campers from catastrophic flooding.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

Eastland, who was the third generation from his family to manage the camp, was 74. Richard “Dick” Eastland, the owner and director of Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, died during the flash ...