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PROVO CANYON — A missing 14-year-old was found after getting separated from her family on the Provo River.
Sgt. Spencer Cannon of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office confirmed they received a call at 5:35 p.m. about a girl who had been missing for an hour.
The family was floating on the river when the girl got ahead of the group, Cannon said. When the family got to their designated meeting place at Vivian Park, Cannon said the girl wasn’t there.
When police received the call, the family hadn’t found the girl’s tube or any of her belongings. Cannon said the girl was not wearing a life jacket at the time and search and rescue teams were attempting to eliminate the river as a possibility of the girl’s location.
Utah County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, Provo Police Department Search and Rescue, Utah County Fire Department and Sundance Fire Department assisted in the search.
The girl was found roughly three miles east of where the family got out of Vivian Park just before 6:30 p.m. Cannon tweeted that the girl walked back to the starting point. She was missing for two hours.
