Scott Ruskan, a 26-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer based in Corpus Christi, Texas, woke up to banging on his door in the early hours of July 4.
There was flooding around San Antonio and he was being deployed, he was told. Did he have a chain saw?
Mr. Ruskan was part of a crew that was tasked with evacuating hundreds of people at Camp Mystic,
an all-girls’ Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River that has become a hub of loss in the catastrophic floods that killed more than 80 people across Central Texas. About 750 girls were at the camp this session, officials said.
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