 A mother and daughter were lucky to suffer only minor injuries after they got stranded on the Verde River. The incident started Sunday afternoon after the Yavabai County Sheriff's Office requested assistance from the Cottonwood Police Department regarding a mother and her eight-year-old daughter who had become separated from their family while floating down the river. The woman had called 911 reporting they were stranded on a large rock and her phone battery was critically low. Cottonwood fire personnel had located the mother and daughter and a police officer carried the girl on his back to a designated rally point.