Search crews in Flagstaff, Arizona were still looking on Monday for a man who slipped and fell into fast-moving floodwaters on Sunday evening and, in the words of a Flagstaff Police Department statement, was “not seen resurfacing.” Emergency crews were called to the area of South Malpais Lane and West Clay Avenue after the man was seen falling into the floodwaters on Sunday, November 1, according to the police release, carried in Arizona Republic live coverage. Crews were actively searching as of 9 p.m. Sunday, and police asked anyone with information to call the Flagstaff Police Department at 928-774-1414 or Silent Witness at 928-774-6111. No name, age or condition has been released, and officials have not said whether the man has been found — the first report of a person missing in this weekend's Arizona flooding.

Source: Associated Press, Nov 1-2, 2026

The search came at the end of a day in which rain fell nearly nonstop in Flagstaff, flooding local roads and overwhelming storm drains across the Coconino County city, the Associated Press reported. FOX 10 Phoenix reported that Flagstaff officials confirmed at least six water rescues in the city during the storm, separate from the search for the missing man. Flagstaff sits at the junction of Interstate 40 and Interstate 17 in northern Arizona — two of the state's heaviest trucking corridors — so flooding and road closures there ripple directly into freight movement across the Southwest.

Sandbags at the church, pumps that could not keep up

Outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Flagstaff, volunteers and parishioners filled plastic bags with sand through Sunday to try to keep floodwater out of the building. Luke Willson said water got into the church's garage, the basement and underneath the building, as well as an office where the computers are kept. “The pumps are pumping, but they're not pumping fast enough,” he told the Associated Press. City and county crews continued to report flooded roads and strained drainage into Monday, with the National Weather Service in Flagstaff maintaining flood warnings for Coconino County as the storm system moved through.

Southeast of Flagstaff: sewage in homes in Pinetop-Lakeside

The same deluge overwhelmed infrastructure more than 100 miles southeast of Flagstaff in the White Mountains. In the Pinetop-Lakeside area, “manhole covers are popping up all over” and residents reported sewage backing up into homes because of flooding, the region's sanitary district said in a statement reported by the Associated Press. FOX 10 Phoenix's coverage of the storm also included flood damage to a bridge in the Pinetop area, and local reports said floodwaters washed out a bridge in the town as residents were urged to shelter in place; the full extent of that damage had not been officially detailed by Monday morning. The National Weather Service in Flagstaff had placed Apache, Gila and Navajo counties — including Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, McNary and the White Mountain Apache Reservation — under flood warnings covering highways including State Route 260 and Highway 60, and warned drivers not to attempt flooded roads.

Background: a Pacific storm train over saturated ground

The latest round of soaking rain began Saturday evening and was expected to saturate the region through Monday, the Associated Press reported, fueled by a series of Pacific storm systems. The weather service estimates as much as 4 inches (10 centimetres) of rain could fall across the region. “We are getting two or three months of rain in a span of a couple of days,” said Aaron Hardin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tucson. Flood warnings and watches covered nearly all of Arizona and parts of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, western New Mexico and southern Nevada, including the sparsely populated Four Corners region where the four states meet. The Salt Lake City weather service office warned that earlier storms had already soaked places such as Zion and Capitol Reef national parks, and that backcountry roads would likely become impassable from the runoff.

Elsewhere in Arizona, the same system forced the mandatory evacuations Awaaz Punjab has reported separately — residents near Oak Creek in Sedona ordered to leave as floodwaters trapped people in homes, evacuation orders in Yavapai County and Camp Verde, and the total evacuation of Gisela, a community of several hundred along Tonto Creek in Gila County — along with swift-water rescues in Tucson, where the Tucson Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team pulled a woman from a car stuck in a flooded wash on Sunday. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs said state air rescue crews were assisting with rooftop evacuations and state transportation crews were helping clear debris. As of Sunday afternoon, no injuries or deaths had been reported in the Sedona area, Yavapai County spokesperson David McAtee said — which is why the missing man in Flagstaff, whose fate remained unconfirmed on Monday, is the storm's most urgent open question in Arizona.

What happens next: the search for the missing man continues under Flagstaff police and fire crews, and officials have promised updates as they are confirmed. Flood warnings across northern and central Arizona run through Monday, with cleanup, road repairs and damage assessments — including the reported bridge damage and sewage failures around Pinetop-Lakeside — expected to follow once waters recede. Awaaz Punjab will update this story if police confirm the man's condition or identity.