Blakely McCrory, an 8-year-old student at Memorial Lutheran in Houston, was a third-generation Camp Mystic camper who was spending her first summer there.Her mother, Lindsey McLeod McCrory, told People that Blakely was a special little girl.

The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area, a spokesman for camp’s operators said Wednesday.