The 45 Minutes That Changed Everything At Camp Mystic

Camp Mystic's co-owner only started evacuating campers more than 45 minutes after getting an emergency alert about "life-threatening" flash floods, according to new details about the tragic July 4 disaster.

Richard "Dick" Eastland — who died during the flood response at his Hunt, Texas camp on the Guadalupe River — received the initial National Weather Service alert on his phone at about 1:14 a.m., a spokesperson for his family told ABC News.

But he only began moving campers at the private all-girls Christian camp to higher ground around 2 a.m. — just as the situation began deteriorating rapidly.

The 45-Minute Gap

"They had no information that indicated the magnitude of what was coming," family spokesperson Jeff Carr said of the floods that would kill 27 children and counselors.