Search underway for people missing from riverside homeless encampment since flood

Miguel Flores has been living under a bridge next to the Kinnickinnic River in Milwaukee for the past three years.

Most mornings, he goes to his sister’s house for a cup of coffee and a quick breakfast.

But his family hasn’t seen or heard from the 59-year-old in two weeks after a historic rainfall hit southeast Wisconsin, causing widespread flooding in the area and quickly raised the level of the Kinnickinnic by more than 10 feet…

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