iPhone alert saves US woman and dog after they’re swept 200 feet down canyon, rescuers say

By Daniella Segura

The woman, who lost her shoes in the flash flood, sent an ‘emergency satellite SOS using her iPhone’, according to rescuers. — Image by cookie_studio on Freepik

As a woman was walking with her dog in a Utah canyon, she heard the sounds of rushing water.

The woman tried to reach higher ground Aug. 24 as flood waters moved in Mary Jane Canyon, the Grand County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue said in an Aug 27 Facebook post.

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