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Micah Smith and his three young children were found and rescued on Oct. 12, after they were reported missing during a hike in Utah’s Big Cottonwood Canyon

The dad’s brother Zach wrote in a GoFundMe that the family was earlier caught in a storm

One of Micah’s sons, Ezra, is currently being kept alive by a heart and lung bypass machine, Zach added

The family of a 31-year-old man, who survived with his three young children after they got lost while hiking in a Utah canyon, said the dad “bravely sacrificed himself” by protecting the kids amid their traumatic ordeal.

On Oct. 11, the father, identified in a GoFundMe as Micah Smith, and his three kids — a 2-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl — went walking in the Broads Fork Trail area in Big Cottonwood Ca

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