Henderson police, fire crews search for man missing in wash
Police and fire crews were searching for a man last seen in the water of a Henderson wash on Tuesday as record-breaking rain continued to drench Southern Nevada.
An emailed statement from the Henderson Police Department Tuesday said that officers as well as crews from the Henderson Fire Department responded to the wash area at Aloha Drive and Pueblo Avenue just after 2:20 p.m. Tuesday for a swift-water rescue for one person.
First responders briefly saw a man in the water, police said.
“Officers on scene as well as fire personnel did briefly have sight of an adult male in the water, however he was quickly immersed back underwater,” the Henderson police statement said. “All attempts to locate the male has met with negative results.”
Police were treating the incident as a missing person and said they have been unable to identify the man. The “search, rescue, recovery operation” continued, police said.
Henderson saw heavy rainfall, hail and flooding in the area on Tuesday from a thunderstorm. The area was under a flash flood warning until 4:30 p.m.
Tim Strahl, 54, who lives in the area where the man was reported missing, said Tuesday afternoon’s rainstorm might have been the hardest he’s seen it rain in Henderson in his 40-plus years living in the city.
“It came down really fast in a short amount of time,” Strahl said. “It was a lot of water. I’ve been here since 1972 and I can’t remember it coming down that hard before.”
Strahl lives with his wife, Sue, on Ash Street, which is just a couple of blocks from where the search was initiated.
“In less than an hour, the water on the street in our neighborhood was up past my ankles,” Strahl said. “It was coming down thick. You couldn’t even see across the street.”
A Clark County Flood Control District gauge near the rescue operation recorded 0.16 inches of rain for the day, as of 4:20 p.m.
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