Overview
- Deputies responded around 10 a.m. Sunday after a vehicle was swept into floodwaters near Table Mesa and I-17 in New River.
- A woman from the first vehicle was rescued, but the male driver remains missing, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
- Officials suspended the search overnight due to severe weather and plan to resume operations Monday morning.
- During the response, crews located a second vehicle being carried by the flood, used a drone to find two occupants, and hoisted them out by helicopter.
- An eyewitness who recorded the rescue described water levels rising several feet quickly, reinforcing warnings not to cross moving water.