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Authorities suspended a Jordan River search near South Salt Lake after a report Wednesday evening of a small child floating facedown in the water. No body had been found late that night.
A man driving a semitrailer crossing the river at 3900 South told authorities at about 8 p.m. that he saw the child floating below, said South Salt Lake Deputy Fire Chief Terry Addison.
"We're pretty confident there was no body," Addison said. "We found some other debris in the river, that may have looked like what he saw."
Authorities had yet to find anything as of 10:15 p.m., Unified police Lt. Brian Lohrke said. A rescue boat was launched into the river to assist, and a helicopter and search dogs were also used in the search. Unified Police Department tweeted at 10:47 p.m. that it was suspending the search until morning.
Addison said several agencies, including Unified Fire Department, Unified Police Department, South Salt Lake City Police Department and Murray Fire Department, had been helping with the search.
Officials talked with a number of neighbors, Lohrke said; None had reported a missing child, he said.
The truck driver was adamant that he had seen the child in the water, Lohrke said.