(Reuters) – The physique of a lady who had been lacking for 3 days was found on Sunday after she had been swept up in a flash flood close to the Grand Canyon in Arizona that required the rescue of greater than 100 individuals, officers stated.
The physique of Chenoa Nickerson, 33, was found by a business river journey on the Colorado River about 20 miles (30 km) downstream of the place she went lacking on Thursday, the U.S. Nationwide Park Service stated in a press release.
Nickerson, from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, was swept into Havasu Creek with out a life jacket, the park service stated.
Havasu Creek is a tributary of the Colorado River that joins the bigger waterway simply earlier than it enters Arizona’s Grand Canyon Nationwide Park.
The aerial, floor and rescue car search was targeting the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River, the park service stated.
The creek additionally runs by means of Havasupai tribal lands, the place tribal leaders requested Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs for flood help, the governor’s workplace stated in a press release.
The state offered property together with a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for evacuation help and a Nationwide Guard deployment, the assertion stated.
The Arizona Nationwide Guard stated on Saturday the Blackhawk helped evacuate 104 vacationers and tribal members out of a canyon.
The Havasupai Tribal Council on Saturday introduced it had closed its lands to vacationers till additional discover resulting from in depth flooding.
