27-year-old woman disappears from Sunset Falls

INDEX, Wash. — Search-and-rescue teams are looking for a 27-year-old woman who disappeared at Sunset Falls on Tuesday night.

The woman, from Texas, was with her mother, sitting on rocks together near the falls. According to Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, the mother turned away, and when she looked back her daughter was gone.

An extensive search was underway, looking downtown stream for hours on Wednesday – until it was suspended for the evening.

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The woman disappeared in the same area as where a 49-year-old man went missing nearly a week ago.  He reportedly slipped into the Skykomish River while on a walk. Crews said at the time of the man's search that the a "tremendous volume of water tumbling over the falls" made it extremely unsafe and dangerous to deploy divers into the water.

It's the same location where another man disappeared earlier this month.

"These are pretty trecherous falls.  We had to pull dive teams back with the last rescue mission we did on the 17th, just because conditions were too dangerous," said Shari Ireton with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office’s SnoHawk and a search and rescue team were looking for the woman.

Before 9:30 p.m., deputies said they had suspended the search for the night due to nightfall.

The woman is from Texas and was here visiting family.

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