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More than 200 people at a summer camp helicoptered to safety as Missouri faces flooding 5%
By HALLIE GOLDEN0% KRISTIN HALL - Associated Press0%
7/11/2026, 3:18:51 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Unattributed Quote, and Loss Aversion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 18.3% saturation with 96 hits. Analysis detected 452 faulty-reasoning hits from 526 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 19.3% and a BS Rank of 5% (20,273 of 21,198 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.60% of the article peer group.
More than 200 kids and staff from a Missouri summer camp have been helicoptered to safety and about 20 people have been rescued from a campground after a building collapsed.
Officials say the rescues came Friday as widespread flooding and heavy rainfall battered the state.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for the area.
Gov.
Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency and activated a search and rescue team to assist.
Officials say there have been no reports of major injuries or fatalities, although one woman is missing.
Meanwhile, the campers at the Bearcat Getaway campground near the Black River, about 85 miles (136 kilometers) south of St.
Louis, had climbed onto a building to get away from the raging waters when it collapsed, Young said.
“Between the weight and the constant waters underneath it, it just gave away on them,” he said.
Three other people were trapped on trees on the Black River in Reynolds County and were rescued Friday evening, Young said.
There have been no reports of major injuries or fatalities, but a woman in Crawford County was missing after a house she was in was swept from its foundation by the flooding, Young said.
The county is about 71 miles (114 kilometers) southwest of St.
Louis.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for the area, which got between 6 and 12 inches (15 and 30 centimeters) of rain as thunderstorms piled on one after another, said Matt Beitscher, a lead meteorologist with the NWS office in St.
Louis.
“It’s very, very popular place for recreation,” Beitscher said of the affected counties.
“So there are campgrounds there.
There are float trip locations there.
A lot of vulnerable populations that would be susceptible to flash flooding.”
The weather service warned that if southeastern Missouri sees more heavy rains overnight into Saturday morning, “considerable flood impacts will be likely.”
Gov.
Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency and activated one of the state's search and rescue teams to assist.
He said late Friday that hundreds of people had been saved from floodwaters, trees, rooftops and stranded vehicles.
Several major roads were impassable due to flooding and damage, Kehoe said, warning that the Black River continues to rise and is expected to crest at more than 28 feet (8.5 meters) near Annapolis in southeastern Missouri, which would be a record for the waterway.
“As recovery efforts continue and additional rain is expected, I urge everyone in flood-prone and low-lying areas to stay weather-aware, have multiple ways of receiving alerts, and be ready to take protective action,” Kehoe said in a statement.
In Reynolds County, two rescue boats capsized in the flooding, but other emergency personnel safely recovered the responders, the sheriff's office said.
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