8 Dead, 5 Missing After Flash Flood At Utah-Arizona Border

Eight people died and five others are missing after a flash flood washed away vehicles at the Utah/Arizona border, the Hildale, Utah, fire department said. All the victims are mothers and small children, Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Barlow said. The youngest child was about 4 years old. The flooding ravaged a community that straddles the border from Hildale, Utah, to Colorado City, Arizona. Most of the people who live in the community are members of the Warren Jeffs polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS).