![]() As a helicopter buzzed overhead, crowds of boys in jeans and girls and women in deep-colored prairie dresses watched the rescue effort. On Tuesday, the streets were caked in red mud, and earth movers clearing the roads piled up mounds of dirt. The dead consisted of women and children ranging in age from four years old to teenagers. The missing were among 13 children and three women in two vehicles that got smashed Monday by a wall of water and carried several hundred yards downstream. With more rain in the forecast, men in helmets were perched at high points along the route, watching carefully for any more floodwaters that could suspend the search. The community is known as the home base for Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect. The floods came after heavy rains fell in the canyons just north of the sister towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, sending waves of water barreling through the streets. ![]() It was unclear if they were all from the same family. Authorities said the victims were as young as four. ![]() The wall of water washed the vehicles several hundred yards downstream on Monday afternoon. Sergeant Brock Bentley of the Washington County sheriff’s office in Utah said one person remained missing after the flooding in Hildale, while three children survived. Zion national park is less than 20 miles (32km) north of the small city of Hildale, on the Utah-Arizona border, where 12 people were killed by flash floods on Monday. ![]()
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