Child dies after 50-foot fall on Midgley Bridge Trail1 min read

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Christopher Fox Graham
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On Saturday, Sept. 2, at approximately 2 p.m., Coconino County Sheriff’s office deputies, Sedona Police Department officers, U.S. Forest Service crews and Sedona Fire District firefighters responded to Midgley Bridge for a report of a 2-year-old child that fell what was estimated 50 to 60 feet down a cliff along the Huckaby Trail that passes under Midgley Bridge.

Sedona Fire District personnel rappelled down the cliff and found the child deceased. The family of the child is on vacation visiting the area from Omaha, Neb.

The case remains under investigation by the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office and Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Please see the Wednesday, Sept. 6, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News for further updates on this pending incident.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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