Community members in a polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border were set to gather Wednesday night for a memorial service marking the one-year anniversary of fatal flash floods that killed at least a dozen people.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints gathered in the community known as Short Creek cursed the flood but praised relief efforts and first responders.
One year ago, two cars with three women and 13 children inside were swept away by a wall of water and into a flooded-out embankment. Three boys survived. One boy, who is presumed dead, is still missing. The bodies of 12 others were found amid mud and debris miles away.
The same storm killed seven hikers who drowned in a narrow canyon in Zion National Park and a man from nearby Hurricane, Utah.