Overview
- Deputies were called around 3 p.m. on Nov. 18 after reports that a vehicle was swept into Big Bug Creek near East Fremont Drive and Thunderbird Trail in Cordes Lakes.
- A Yavapai County sheriff's deputy entered fast-moving water and pulled to safety a man who had tried to help the driver.
- The small sedan was later found lodged against a tree roughly two miles downstream with no one inside.
- Search teams worked both banks of Big Bug Creek and expanded efforts to the Agua Fria River on Wednesday.
- Authorities have not released the missing man's name and urge the public to avoid the creek during hazardous conditions.