Camp Mystic guard says an evacuation order could've saved lives

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The security guard at Camp Mystic the night of last year’s deadly flood has acknowledged that if there was a general evacuation order early in the storm, lives could've been saved.

Glenn Juenke testified Wednesday he helped evacuate some of the campers to a two-story building before getting trapped inside a cabin himself.

He saved a group of campers when he told them to scramble to higher ground as flood waters rose.

But he said that was his decision, not an order from camp directors.

He testified in a legal fight between families of campers who died and camp operators who want to reopen this summer.

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