The families of nine victims who died in July amid the flooding at Camp Mystic in Central Texas sued the camp on Monday, accusing it of gross negligence.

One lawsuit, filed by the parents of campers Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Molly DeWitt, Lainey Landry and Blakely McCrory and counselors Chloe Childress and Katherine Ferruzzo in District Court in Travis County, Texas, accuses the Eastland family — the owners of the camp — of protecting camp property over the safety of campers and counselors.

The complaint alleges that the owners, who have helmed the camp since 1939, knew that flash flooding posed a risk to the camp based on its proximity to the Guadalupe River and prior floods in 1932, 1978, 1985 and 1987.

It also says that the camp’s owners did not adequately respond to the Nationa

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