Search for three year old boy
Members
in full winter gear left the North Face Mt San
Jacinto to head for a rain storm in Piņon Flats.
A three years old boy had been playing by his
cabin in when his parents went to look for him he
was gone, all in about 10 minutes. This happen
around 12:00 noon and they had quickly called the
Sheriff, who called RMRU.
The
first members on scene started a detailed search
of the P.L.S. (point last seen). Other members
started to do a hasty search along know barriers,
such as a highway, a canyon, and a high ridge.
This is done in hopes of finding some foot prints
in the area where no one else has walked. All
this turned up nothing. At 5:00 p.m., only three
hours after the search had started, we placed a
call for help to all Mountain Rescue Association
Teams in California. This is standard procedure
with a lost child. Meanwhile, the weather was
getting worse by the minute.
By
9:00 p.m. other teams began arriving. Everyone
searched all night long with no results. This
operation continued for three more days and no
trace or sign of the boy was ever found. It is on
of the few time in our 30 years of search and
rescue that we did not find the subject. Three
more times over the course of March and April,
teams went out and tried to find some clue, but
sadly nothing was ever found.
We
wish to thank all the other Mountain Rescue Teams
and other volunteer groups who assisted with this
operation. Over 150 people were involved over the
3 days of the search.
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