Army Helicopters Airlift More Than 200 Stranded Campers as Missouri Floods Trigger Hundreds of Rescues
Black Hawk crews pulled young campers from floodwaters at Camp Taum Sauk in Reynolds County.
Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopters airlifted 202 young campers stranded by rising floodwaters at Camp Taum Sauk in Reynolds County, Missouri, Fox News reported, as the flooding triggered more than 350 rescues across the region.
Video of the operation showed the helicopters ferrying campers to safety from the flooded camp, underscoring the scale of a flooding event that overwhelmed local waterways and forced a rapid, large-scale response from military and rescue crews.
The rescues added to a mounting tally of flood-related emergency operations across Missouri as authorities worked to reach residents and visitors cut off by the rising water.
— Compiled from reporting by Fox News.