Arizona National Guard Rescues Flood-Stranded Tourists

Video showed the Arizona National Guard evacuating tourists and tribal members out of a canyon after flash flooding impacted the Havasupai Community and tourists visiting the area.

The aerial, ground and rescue vehicle search was concentrated on the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River, according to the US National Park Service.

The creek also runs through Havasupai tribal lands, where tribal leaders asked Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs for flood assistance, the governor's office said in a statement.

The state provided assets including a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for evacuation assistance and a National Guard deployment, the statement said.

The body of Chenoa Nickerson, 33, was discovered by a commercial river trip on the Colorado River about 30 km downstream of where she went missing, the US National Park Service said in a statement. Nickerson, from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, was swept into Havasu Creek without a life jacket, the park service said.

An estimated 104 tribal members and tourists near Havasupai Falls were evacuated after flood waters left them stranded, according to the Arizona National Guard.

Gov. Katie Hobbs deployed the Guard in response to flooding at the Havasupai reservation near the Grand Canyon, where the waters of Havasu Creek swept away a woman from Gilbert.

Rescue efforts, coordinated by the Coconino County Sheriff's Office, the National Park Service, and tribal officials, were supported by a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, according to Maj. Erin Hannigan, a spokesperson for the Guard.

Deputy Jon Paxton of Coconino County said the search was helmed by the National Park Service and confirmed that anyone requesting evacuation was taken to safety.

During flash flooding approximately half a mile above the Colorado River, according to the National Park Service.