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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.<\/strong> – A missing man was found dead, submerged in several feet of water, after flash flooding hit Arizona on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The Scottsdale Fire Department responded to a vehicle submerged in floodwaters near 77th Street and Garfield<\/a> in Scottsdale. Around 7:46 p.m. they received reports of a car being stranded in rapidly moving water within the Vista Del Camino Park area, just south of Roosevelt Street.<\/p>\n The vehicle was found “partially submerged in 8 to 9 feet of fast-moving water.” Fire crews and Scottsdale police closed down the roadway in both directions during their initial search operations, sweeping for any signs of movement.<\/p>\n Despite an aerial sweep and using a drone for closer inspection, officials said the vehicle “appeared unoccupied.” A decision was then made to monitor the vehicle overnight as water levels began to drop.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n As officials worked to locate the vehicle’s owner, family members reported 38-year-old Ander Pallares Polanco missing around 6:15 p.m. after not hearing from him.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Around 6 a.m. on Sept. 27, the water levels dropped to 4 to 5 feet, allowing officials to search the vehicle again.<\/p>\n A body, later identified as Polanco, was found pinned beneath the walkway bridge around 7:40 a.m., submerged in 5 to 6 feet of water outside of the vehicle.<\/p>\n A water rescue boat was used to recover the body and bring them to shore.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The cause of death will be determined by the Medical Examiner’s Office. This remains an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n Map of the incident location.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> This information was provided by the Scottsdale Fire Department and the Scottsdale Police Department.<\/p>\n Severe Weather<\/a>Scottsdale<\/a>News<\/a>Monsoons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – A missing man was found dead, submerged in several feet of water, after flash flooding…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,60242,50,1589,7600,5313,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-260825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-maricopa-county","12":"tag-monsoons","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-scottsdale","16":"tag-severe-weather","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115280963635173331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}