4-year-old boy rescued from Big Cottonwood kept alive by machine, family says

  • A 4-year-old boy rescued from Big Cottonwood Canyon remains hospitalized.
  • The family was found by search and rescue teams after a storm hit.
  • The father, Micah Smith, suffers from frostbite.

BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON — The family of a 31-year-old man and his three young children, who were rescued in Big Cottonwood Canyon over the weekend, says one boy remains in the hospital.

On Sunday, the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team, working with a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter and a Life Flight helicopter crew, located a 31-year-old man, his sons, ages 4 and 2, and his 8-year-old daughter in the Twin Peaks area.

The sheriff’s office said the missing hikers set off on their journey on Saturday and their vehicle was found in the Broads Fork parking lot after they were reported missing. The father was reported to be in fair condition, two of the children were in critical condition and the third child was stable, the sheriff’s office said…

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