Arizona’s National Guard rescued more than 100 people from a flood-impacted area of Grand Canyon National Park as search efforts for a missing hiker continued Sunday.
Guard members used a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter to evacuate 104 tourists and tribal members from a canyon on the lands of the Havasupai Tribe within the park on Saturday, video from the Arizona National Guard showed. Flooding triggered by monsoon storms on Thursday forced local authorities to shut down the area to tourists and prompted several emergency evacuations.
Several hikers became stranded during the flash flood early Thursday afternoon, the park service said. A rescue flight was sent to recover the stranded hikers both below and above Beaver Falls, but Nickerson remained missing, according to the release. The National Park Service described Nickerson as 5 feet 8 inches tall and 190 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information about her is being asked to contact the park service’s Investigative Services tip line.
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