Rescuers continued looking out over the weekend for a girl who went missing Friday amid a flash flood at Zion National Park in Utah that additionally swept a bunch of hikers off their toes.
The National Park Service recognized the missing customer as Jetal Agnihotri of Tucson, Arizona. She did not return to her lodging Friday night time following a day journey to the Narrows within the afternoon, the park service mentioned in a press release.
Park officers mentioned a number of hikers reported being swept off their toes Friday by flash flooding alongside the park’s spine — the Virgin River.
When park rangers responded to the report, they discovered an injured hiker a number of hundred yards downstream of the Temple of Sinawava, the park service mentioned. The customer was hospitalized, and their situation was unavailable.
Rangers additionally discovered a number of hikers on trapped on excessive floor by the water, park officers mentioned. They had been in the end helped to security, it mentioned.
All the hikers had been regarded as accounted for after the preliminary search till later that night when Agnihotri’s buddies reported her missing, the park service mentioned.
The space the place Agnihotri went to hike, the Narrows, together with the adjoining Riverside Walk, had been closed till additional discover to facilitate the search.
Virgin River Narrows tenting permits and sure mountain climbing permits had been canceled as nicely.
Agnihotri’s buddies instructed NBC affiliate KSL of Salt Lake City that she wished to see the Narrows on Friday regardless of the flash flood warnings that helped persuade her buddies to not go.
Pujan Agnihotri, her brother, instructed the station she could not swim.
The fashionable Narrows hike requires guests to stroll within the Virgin River by way of the Zion Canyon, which is 20 to 30 toes large in some locations. The space is vulnerable to flash flooding as a result of it’s surrounded by naked rock that doesn’t take up water, in accordance with the park’s website.
