Elizabeth Phillips
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So Trey's not the only one that's died by suicide.
And then you have these 27, 8-year-old girls, 8 to 10-year-old girls, who died because the camp didn't have an evacuation plan.
In fact, their evacuation plan was to shelter in place.
That's not an evacuation plan.
What were you trained on?
Like, when there's flash flooding, what do you do?
Get to higher ground.
Get to higher ground, not rocket science.
They left the eight-year-old babies in the flood and they got swept away between 1 and 7 a.m.
on the morning of July 4th.
Three of them were my friend's daughters.
I wear these bracelets in their honor.
Uh, they're now known as the Heavens 27.
And, um...
One of them especially hit close to home because my sorority sister, Caitlin, we lived together in the capitals.
We studied abroad in London during college,
And she has three girls, and Lila was the oldest.
And I couldn't stay at the beach while this was happening, right?
So our whole family, we leave, we come back to Dallas, we go to Lila's funeral memorial service, and I go hug my friend, and I'm like, this wasn't your fault.
She went to Mystic, too, so I knew she was gonna blame herself.