Search for missing Kelowna man paused again | 24CA News
The seek for a lacking 79-year-old Kelowna man has been placed on maintain pending additional path from police, Central Okanagan Search and Rescue officers mentioned Sunday.
Allan Francescutti was final seen April 16, and the search that obtained underway April 21 has taken dozens of hours amongst dozens of search and rescue members from throughout the province.
The effort has centred across the Dee Lake space, north of Kelowna, the place Franscescutti’s automotive was discovered. Little extra of his whereabouts has been made clear since, and COSAR supervisor Duane Tresnich mentioned it was Saturday afternoon when the search got here to a halt.
“We have to redefine the search and ask RCMP where we have to go next,” Tresnich mentioned. “The terrain is extremely challenging. There hasn’t been a forest fire in that area in 100 plus years, the trees are close together, there’s lots of fall down and once you’re around 10 feet off the road, it’s thick.”
The hope amongst search crews was, primarily based on the path Francescutti’s automobile was pointing, that he would have been discovered strolling down the Forest Service Road within the space. That has not been the case and the forested space adjoining to the highway poses extra of a problem.
“He could have gone any which direction,” Tresnich mentioned.
Francescutti was final seen leaving his Lower Mission dwelling on April 16, and his pickup truck was discovered not lengthy after on a forest service highway within the Dee Lake Road space.
Both police plus search and rescue are asking hunters or wildlife watchers to assessment their recreation cameras if they’ve any put in within the Dee Lake and Doreen Lake areas.
“There are a lot of hunters up here that might have trail cams, so we’re hoping someone might check their trail cams and we can see him coming up the road,” Tresnich mentioned.
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