15 feared missing after flash flood sweeps Grand Canyon, 62 evacuated

On a Saturday afternoon in one of the world's most ancient landscapes, nature reasserted its authority — a flash flood tore through Bright Angel Canyon at the Grand Canyon, remaking the terrain and leaving fifteen people unaccounted for by Sunday morning. Sixty-two others were brought to safety, but the canyon itself bore witness to forces that have always shaped it: boulders carried like pebbles, bridges erased, new rapids carved in hours. The search for the missing continues beneath skies that promise more rain, reminding us that the grandeur of wild places carries within it an indifferent a