Flagstaff: Authority was looking for two people who were on a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon and lost after flash floods, said Park spokesman Thursday.
The authorities got a Wednesday night phone from someone on a commercial trip on the Colorado River who said people had been injured and asked for emergency assistance, said Park spokesman Joelle Baird.
Park Crews launched a search from the ground, water and air for at least two missing people, he said.
There was no other information about the identity of the missing people immediately released.
The flood crashed into people on the trip when they camped in the mouth of the side dress almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) from where the raft was launched at Lees Ferry near the line of Arizona-Utah State.
Baird did not immediately know the extent to which injury to other passengers traveling with two rafts.
The area that has been desperate for rain after two years of gloomy monsoon activity has been hampered lately, with more rain estimates.
Radar shows rain about one inch (2.5 centimeters) along the Colorado River, said the National Weather Service.
About an hour from the Grand Canyon, Floodwaters swept Flagstaff for the past two days, sending the car floating down the city road.
Residents in the shadow of the mountain burned in 2019 had been rather prepared for large flooding with sandbags around their homes and concrete obstacles to direct water.
However, many of them have dug mud, wooden bars and debris from their front yards.
Flash flood threats will remain through next week, said the National Weather Service, although coverage will be more scattered than widespread.
“The moisture is not everywhere, and it will heat up too, so it is the perfect ingredients for thunderstorms in the afternoon and night in Arizona,” said the Meteorologist Evan Laguardia in Flagstaff.
Two missing from the Grand Canyon rafting journey after flash flood
