UPPER MAKEFIELD, Pa. — Divers were poised Thursday to search for a 2-year-old girl and her 9-month-old brother who were washed away with their mother in a flash flood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after severe weather on Wednesday halted efforts to find the children, officials said.
Rescue crews were attempting to resume the search for 2-year-old Matilda"Mattie" Sheils and her 9-month-old brother, Conrad Sheils, who have been missing since their family was caught in the deluge over the weekend while driving near Upper Makefield Township, authorities said.
Severe weather in the search area prevented rescue crews from resuming efforts on Wednesday to locate the children, officials said. "We have searched the entire flood zone more than a dozen times," Brewer said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, adding that the search covered roughly 117 acres."That will mean underwater assets mainly in the creek and we will work out from there. We still have K-9 assets in place, but we are going to begin to scale down," said Brewer, adding that crews have searched and re-searched the area.The tragedy unfolded around 5:30 p.m.
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