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PAGE, Ariz. — A multiagency search resumed Sunday in the water near Halls Crossing in Lake Powell after police say an 18-month-old child likely fell into the water and drowned Saturday night.
Police received a report at about 7:30 p.m. of a missing child, San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge said.
Eldredge said the mother was with the child when the mother told authorities she had lost track of the child for a few minutes "while the family recreated on the houseboat."
The mother and other family members began searching around the boat before believing the child fell into the water, Eldredge said. He added the child was not wearing a life preserver.
Responding National Park Service rangers were also unable to locate the child on the houseboat and began a search of the water, Eldredge added. He said the NPS dive team was then called, but a search was called off at about 10:30 p.m. without locating the child.
Eldredge said the team resumed the search Sunday morning.
Six deaths have already been reported at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in 2016, including a 33-year-old mother who died last month while rescuing her son who had fallen into the water also near Halls Crossing.
The houseboat was tied to a stationary buoy in the Halls Crossing buoy field when the child disappeared.
