Man dead, child missing after both washed into Dallas Creek – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas Fire-Rescue says search crews will be out again Sunday morning looking for a missing child in a creek that feeds Mountain Creek Lake.

Just after 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dallas firefighters were called to a water rescue in the 2700 block of Mountain Creek Parkway.

A child was reportedly washed away while fishing in a stream in the area. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, the boy’s father jumped in to save him but was also swept away and neither of them emerged.

The creek flows into the 943-acre Mountain Creek Lake.

Dallas Fire-Rescue, the Dallas Police Department and the Game Warden’s Office worked together Saturday to locate the pair.

Dallas Fire-Rescue says a man’s body was found around 5 p.m., but the child was still missing. The emergency services had to call off the search around 7 p.m. because it was too dark to continue.

The Dallas Police Department’s dive team will lead the search for the child Sunday morning.

The man’s body was handed over to the coroner’s office, which will confirm the identity and cause of death.

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