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According to the National Park Service, a hiker is missing after flash floods in Grand Canyon National Park on Thursday afternoon.
The park service said it was conducting search and rescue operations to find the woman, who was believed to have been swept away by flash floods near the mouth of the Colorado River, according to a news release Friday.
The woman, identified as Chenoa Nickerson, 33, of Gilbert, Arizona, was not wearing a life jacket when she was swept into Havasu Creek, the news release said.
Several hikers were stranded during the flash flood early Thursday afternoon, the park service said. A rescue flight was dispatched to rescue the stranded hikers below and above Beaver Falls, but Nickerson remained missing, the news release said.
The National Park Service described Nickerson as 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information about her is asked to call the park service’s investigative hotline.
Her sister Tamara Morales said, according to CNN partner KNXV: “We continue to hope that she will be found safely.”
Nickerson’s husband was rescued safely, Morales told KNXV.
“We love her very much and we will not give up on her,” Morales said of her sister. “We want all efforts to focus on the search and finding her safely.”
According to KNXV, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs called on the Arizona National Guard to assist with rescue efforts on the Havasupai Indian Reservation, which is surrounded by Grand Canyon National Park. Flooding from monsoon storms led to several emergency evacuations.
