59-year-old Miguel Angel Flores Among 5 Reported Missing After Historic Flash Flood Struck Milwaukee, All Were Staying Under The S. Chase Ave. And S. 1st Street Bridge By The River Edge

A nephew of missing 59-year-old Flores confirmed that 3 bodies were recovered and held at the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office (MCMEO), the MCMEO nor the Milwaukee Police Department haven't released any information (identities) about the two bodies recovered from the Kinnickinnic River after the historic flash flood.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

August 17, 2025

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - The Milwaukee homeless community in the Southside of Milwaukee continues to grieve, but remained hopeful that all of the 5 missing homeless individuals that went missing from under the bridge at S. Chase Ave. and S. 1st Street after a flash flood struck the Milwaukee area including the Southside can be located alive, but information released by a family member of one of the missing individuals indicated that three bodies have been recovered and two have been identified.

It was previously reported by Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) that the five missing homeless individuals were staying under the S. 6 Street and W. Cleveland Ave. bridge, but the nephew of one of the individuals missing confirmed that they were staying under the S. Chase and S. 1st Street bridge.

Arturo Vázquez on Sunday, contacted HNNUSA seeking help to locate his missing 59-year-old uncle Miguel Angel Flores, believed to be among 5 homeless individuals that were washed away by a historic flash flood (11.50" to 14.50" of torrential rain that fell in the Milwaukee area) from under the S. Chase and S.1st Street bridge on the night of August 9 and 10, 2025. 

According to Vázquez, he said that Alex, who was also staying under the S. Chase bridge was among the other five homeless individuals, and that Alex was the only survivor that escaped from being washed away by the Kinnickinnic River flash flood waters, and that he witnessed when the 5 homeless individuals were washed away by rushing river flood waters.

Vázquez says, when he went to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office, that he was showed several photos of recently deceased individuals. 

The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that the body of Isaias Serna, 72, was recovered on August 13, 2025 around 2:44 p.m. in the Kinnickinnic River by Barnacle Buds at the 1900 S. Hilbert Street in the Southside of Milwaukee. Serna leaved under a bridge, according to the MCMEO.

Also the body of 48-year-old Juan Carlos Sierra Campos of Appleton was recovered on Sunday, August 10, 2025, around 10:30 a.m. at Lake Michigan, 500 block of N. Harbor Drive by Milwaukee Police Department's Harbor Patrol unit.

Vázquez says, that Sierra Campos was among the 5 individuals that stayed under the S. Chase Ave. and S. 1st Street bridge with his uncle Flores.

Vázquez told HNNUSA that a missing report for Flores has been filed with the Milwaukee Police Department, but that police told the family that they are not actively seeking or trying to locate Flores because he is an adult.