Xavier Ramirez's family had been at a campground in Kerr County when the waters of the Guadalupe River began to quickly rise.

Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees Saturday and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others missing after a wall of water blasted down a river in the Texas Hill Country.

A Texas sheriff says the deaths from flash flooding in central Texas has risen to 27 people, including nine children.