Pictured: Nine dead and one missing in Arizona flash flood. Hector Miguel Garnica, a 2. Arizona swimming hole where he was spending Saturday with his extended family Adults, teens and children as young as two were enjoying a summer afternoon by cooling off in an Arizona creek when the gentle waters turned deadly. The group of 1. 4  from the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas had met Saturday for a day trip along a popular swimming hole near Payson, about 1. They set up lounge chairs not knowing an intense thunderstorm was dumping heavy rainfall just upstream in the Tonto National Forest. The storm unleashed six- foot- high floodwaters, dark with ash from a summer wildfire, onto the unsuspecting family and friends. Watch Into The Grizzly Maze Online. The torrent carried away tree branches and other debris and left a wake of nine bodies.

Search and rescue crews, including 4. Authorities did not identify them. A 2. 7- year- old father of three, Hector Miguel Garnica, was still missing on Monday. The bodies of his wife Maria Raya, who would have been 2. Sunday, and their three kids -  three- year- old Emily, five- year- old Mia and seven- year- old Hector Daniel - were pulled from the water. Scroll down for video The bodies of Garnica's wife, Maria Raya, and their three kids - three- year- old Emily, five- year- old Mia and seven- year- old Hector Daniel - were pulled from the waters this weekend.

The family is pictured above. Maria's mother Selia Garcia, 6. The names of the rest of the victims are as follows, according to the Arizona Republic: Maribel Raya, 2. Maria's sister), and her daughter Erika, two; Javier Raya, 1. Maria's brother); Selia Garcia, 6.

Maria's mother); and Jonathan Leon, 1. Selia's grandson). Four other members of the group - two adults and two children - were rescued from the waters on Saturday and hospitalized for hypothermia. They have since been released from the hospital. Disa Alexander was hiking to the swimming area where Ellison Creek and East Verde River converge when the water suddenly surged.

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Video she posted to social media showed torrents of water surging through jagged canyons carved in Arizona's signature red rock.'I could have just died!' Alexander exclaimed on the video. The above picture shows the flood waters coursing through the area on Saturday She spotted a man holding a baby and clinging to a tree. Nearby, his wife was also in a tree. A boy Alexander described as the couple's son was on the rocks above the water. This grainy image taken from video of the floods shows a father clinging to a tree with his baby in his hand. They are thought to have survived.

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Had they been swept downstream, they would have been sent over a 2. Alexander said. Alexander and others tried to reach them but couldn't. Fortunately help was close by. Some search and rescue team members were already near the swimming hole after getting a call to help someone who had suffered a bad allergic reaction, according to Detective Sgt. David Hornung of the Gila County Sheriff's Department. When they arrived at the scene, 'they heard someone screaming for help and saw a man clinging to a rock,' said Hornung, who added that the man was safely rescued.

Then they heard other people calling for help.'Some 4. T- shirts and helmets dotted the green landscape as they combed the waters and banks for the missing boy.

A few brought along specially trained search dogs hoping to find him alive, Hornung said. The family, who was staying in the area, declined to be interviewed when approached by an Associated Press reporter.

Lightning strikes as a monsoon sweeps toward north Phoenix Sunday night. The swimming hole is on the East Verde River around 1. Payson and around 1. Watch Chestnut: Hero Of Central Park Online more. Phoenix The National Weather Service estimated up to 1.

The thunderstorm hit about 8 miles upstream along Ellison Creek, which quickly flooded the narrow canyon where the swimmers were. Hornung noted that the National Weather Service had issued a flash flood warning about 1 1/2 hours before, 'but unless they had a weather radio out there, they wouldn't have known about it. There is no cell phone service out here.'The swift waters gushed for about 1. Hornung said.'They had no warning. They heard a roar, and it was on top of them,' Water Wheel Fire and Medical District Fire Chief Ron Sattelmaier said. While Arizona is known for its dryness, it gets bursts of heavy rains during the summer monsoon season.

The severe thunderstorm was located in a remote area that had been burned by a recent wildfire, Sattelmaier said. The 'burn scar' was one of the reasons the weather service issued the flash- flood warning.'If it's an intense burn, it creates a glaze on the surface that just repels water,' said Darren Mc. Collum, a meteorologist. The floods occurred when a thunder storm struck part of Ellison Creek, eight miles north of the hole, sending water rushing downstream. Above, the scene under the First Crossing Bridge afterwards. One of the victims bodies was found beneath this bridge on Sunday afternoon Five bodies were recovered from the river on Sunday, a day after the floods.

Four others were found on Saturday and two people remain missing. Authorities continued searching the river on Sunday Members of the Tonto Rim Search and Rescue team carried on the search for survivors Authorities continued to search for the two missing people on Sunday afternoon Pictured: What the creek normally looks like Crowds looking to beat the Phoenix metro area's heat often head to the small creeks that flow out of the mountains forming swimming holes and a series of small waterfalls. But officials warn that visitors need to be aware of the dangers of a flash flood.'I wish there was a way from keeping people from getting in there during monsoon season, ' Sattelmaier said 'It happens every year. We've just been lucky something like this hasn't been this tragic.'Steve Stevens, a volunteer fire fighter with Water Wheel Search and Rescue, said visitors should stay away when there are flash flood warnings.'The clouds over on the other side of the mountain can be dumping buckets, and all of a sudden there's a wall of water coming through that just wipes out everything in its path,' said Stevens, who has lived in the area for 2. Sudden flooding in canyons has been deadly before.

In 2. 01. 5, seven people were killed in Utah's Zion National Park when they were trapped during a flash flood while hiking in a popular canyon that was as narrow as a window in some spots and several hundred feet deep. In 1. 99. 7, 1. 1 hikers were killed near Page, Arizona, after a wall of water from a rainstorm miles upstream tore through a narrow, twisting series of corkscrew- curved walls on Navajo land known as Lower Antelope Canyon. A LOOK AT DEADLY FLOODING INCIDENTS IN SLOT CANYONSNine people were killed when floodwaters from a sudden rainstorm thundered through a tranquil swimming area in Tonto National Forest. Crews continue to search Sunday afternoon for a person still unaccounted for, a day after the flash flood hit the Cold Springs canyon, located about 1. Phoenix. The popular cooling spot, known as the Ellison Creek or Water Wheel swimming holes, is accessible through several hiking trails.

It is about 2. 0 feet wide and 2. It isn't the first time people have been killed when flash floods swept through so- called slot canyons, which are formed by the wear of water in rock and are typically significantly deeper than they are wide. Here's a look at other deadly flooding incidents in slot canyons in the U. S. during the past few years: FLASH FLOOD AT ZION NATIONAL PARKSeven people were killed in Utah's Zion National Park in September 2. The group was trapped by floodwaters in a popular slot canyon that was as narrow as a window in some spots and went several hundred feet deep.

A park ranger said at the time that the flooding went from a "trickle to a wall" of water. The group - comprised of hikers in their 4. Watch Survival Of The Dead Online Hitfix.