(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 mentioned.
The physique of Chenoa Nickerson, 33, was found by a industrial 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 mentioned in an announcement.
Nickerson, from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, was swept into Havasu Creek and not using a life jacket, the park service mentioned.
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 mentioned.
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 mentioned in an announcement.
The state offered property together with a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for evacuation help and a Nationwide Guard deployment, the assertion mentioned.
The Arizona Nationwide Guard mentioned 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 as a consequence of intensive flooding.
