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ONE-YEAR-OLD SURVIVES BEING WASHED AWAY IN JOSHUA TREE FLOODING

A one-year-old Joshua Tree boy miraculously survived after being swept away by flood water in Joshua Tree. The powerful flood Tuesday destroyed the family home, washed away the boy’s bedroom—and carried one-year-old Tristan away along with it.

“We really thought that we lost him,” Tristan’s mother Ryan Scarcy said. A torrent of gushing floodwater slammed into the home of Ryan Scarcy and Brian Bennett, pouring through the house and into the boy’s bedroom. The water level continued to rise until it reached the roof, at which point the entire wall was washed away. Scarcy and Bennett realized their child was gone, swept up in the current. “We came around thinking we can break a window to get in and the whole wall was gone,” Bennett said. “His room was gone and he was nowhere to be found.” The water carried young Tristan hundreds of feet from his home and parents, past a barbed wire fence at the edge of their property. Suddenly a friend shouted that their son was still alive. Bennett said, “I turned around and saw him with his head peeking out of the mud, ran out and picked him up. I looked at him, made sure he was breathing; he was just in shock.”

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Baby Washed Away By Flooding in Joshua Tree is Safe and Sound

While the family calls Tristan’s survival a miracle, they are sobered by the realization that they lost almost everything in the flood. “The house is gone, the furniture is gone, Tristan’s things are gone,” Scarcy said. “But I’m really thankful to have my son, that we have him and that he’s still alive.”

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