Overview

• Authorities said the Oct. 14 rescue occurred near Battaglia Road and Highway 87 in Eloy, with Pinal County Search and Rescue, a K9 deputy, Eloy Police and the Casa Grande Fire Department responding.
• Eloy Police reported the driver had gone around barricades before becoming stranded, and agencies urged drivers to avoid flooded roadways and washes.
• The National Weather Service in Phoenix reported storms Sunday and Monday with wind gusts over 60 mph, hail and torrential rain that fueled flash flooding.
• Phoenix Sky Harbor logged 1.96 inches of rain on Sunday, one of the airport’s highest single‑day October totals on record.
• A microburst in Tempe displaced well over 130 people and knocked out power to tens of thousands, and separate water rescues were conducted across the region, including a helicopter rescue in Maricopa County on Oct. 12.