20 rescued after building collapses in US's Missouri flooding

Updated On: 11 July, 2026 10:54 AM IST | Reynolds County (US) | AP | PTI

The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for the area, which got between 6 and 12 inches as thunderstorms piled on the area one after another, said Matt Beitscher, a lead meteorologist with the NWS office in St. Louis. "It''s very, very popular place for recreation," said Beitscher of the affected counties

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Emergency crews rescued about 20 people in Missouri on Friday after a building collapsed in a campground following widespread flooding and heavy rainfall in the state. The campers were on top of a building at the Bearcat Getaway campground near the Black River, about 85 miles (136 kilometres) south of St. Louis, when it collapsed and were later rescued from the water, said Sgt.

Eddie Young with the Missouri State Highway Patrol at a press conference. The Reynolds County sheriff''s office said emergency responders had more than 90 water rescues of campers and people in cars after several inches of rain fell overnight into the morning across a long swath of central and eastern Missouri.