St. George • Searchers are planning to renew efforts to find the body of a 6-year-old boy swept away in September by floods in a small polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border.
The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that crews from Colorado City said Saturday more recent floods have created new paths through waterways.
Terrill Musser, of Colorado City Search and Rescue, says the new conditions may make it possible to locate 6-year-old Tyson Lucas Black.
Black was with 16 women and children when a flash flood on Sept. 14 swept away the two cars they were riding in. Twelve members of two families were killed. Three young boys survived.
Authorities and volunteers failed to find the child during several searches through a 10-mile stretch of mud and debris piles.
Community members look along a stream after a flash flood Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Colorado City, Ariz. Authorities have confirmed at least nine people have died in flash flooding that swept away two vehicles in Hildale, Utah, a town on the Utah-Arizona border. 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. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Community members search along a stream after a flash flood Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Colorado City, Ariz. Authorities have confirmedat least nine people have died in flash flooding that swept away two vehicles in a town on the Utah-Arizona. 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. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Searchers from Utah Task Force One and the Utah National Guard comb a wash, looking for the remaining victim of a flash flood, in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Searchers from Utah Task Force One and the Utah National Guard comb a wash, looking for the remaining victim of a flash flood, in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Members of the Utah National Guard and Task Force One search the Short Creek Wash in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015. The Utah National Guard and law enforcement on Wednesday resumed searching for the last known victim of a flash flood that tore through this polygamous border town home to followers of Warren Jeffs, leaving 13 dead and three injured, all of them women and children.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Members of the Utah National Guard and Task Force One search the Short Creek Wash in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015. The Utah National Guard and law enforcement on Wednesday resumed searching for the last known victim of a flash flood that tore through this polygamous border town home to followers of Warren Jeffs, leaving 13 dead and three injured, all of them women and children.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Members of the Utah National Guard search the Short Creek Wash in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015. The Utah National Guard and law enforcement on Wednesday resumed searching for the last known victim of a flash flood that tore through this polygamous border town home to followers of Warren Jeffs, leaving 13 dead and three injured, all of them women and children.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Members of the Utah National Guard search the Short Creek Wash in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015. The Utah National Guard and law enforcement on Wednesday resumed searching for the last known victim of a flash flood that tore through this polygamous border town home to followers of Warren Jeffs, leaving 13 dead and three injured, all of them women and children.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Members of Task Force One search the Short Creek Wash in Hildale, Wednesday September 16, 2015. The Utah National Guard and law enforcement on Wednesday resumed searching for the last known victim of a flash flood that tore through this polygamous border town home to followers of Warren Jeffs, leaving 13 dead and three injured, all of them women and children.
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