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From: average joe	6/11/2010 4:33:03 PM
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At Least 20 Campers Killed in Arkansas Flash Flood Campers at the Remote Albert Pike Campground Were Swept Away by Rising Rivers - 3 Dozen Still Missing At least 20 people in a remote part of Arkansas were killed early Friday morning after flash floods swept through their campsites following a heavy rain, according to Gov. Mike Beebe. 42 people are confirmed dead on the Portuguese vacation island. About three dozen campers were still missing in the area this afternoon as rescuers rushed to get to the isolated site, the Associated Press reported, citing emergency workers. "It's a terrible tragedy and we're doing all we can to hopefully find some folks and bring some people back who are stranded out there," said Matt DeCample, spokesperson for the governor Mike Beebe told ABC News. "We've got a lot of state and local folks pulling together. This is an unprecedented tragedy out in this part of the state. It's a very rural but close-knit portion of Arkansas." The area is still heavily flooded and searches are expected to take at least two days. The Caddo and Little Missouri rivers -- two normally gentle waterways -- rose by 20 feet overnight, engulfing the hikers and campers spending the night in tents along the rivers in the isolated Ouachita Mountains. The area affected, the Albert Pike campground , is managed by the U.S. Forest Service and is about 75 miles west of Little Rock. Officials say they expect more deaths but do not yet have a full count on the number of people at the site or missing. "We don't know who was in there last night," State Police spokesman Bill Sadler told the Associated Press. "This is a very wide area." Brigette Williams, spokeswoman for the American Red Cross in Little Rock, told the Associated Press that between 200 and 300 people were believed to be in the area at the time of the flooding. She did not know how many of those were campers and how many were local residents. DeCample said people there would have had "very little warning or alerts" because the flooding occurred while most people were sleeping. The Little Missouri west of Caddo Gap stood at 3 feet Thursday but after 7.6 inches of rain fell in the area overnight the level jumped to 23.5 feet by Friday morning. At 10 a.m. it had dropped to 11.5 feet. Officials were also bringing in a refrigerated truck to serve as a temporary morgue and downstream Glenwood police and fire crews monitored river debris moving beneath a highway overpass. abcnews.go.com

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