The seek for a North Okanagan man who went lacking days earlier is continuous, with the stakes getting larger the longer he’s not been discovered.
The trouble to search out Robert Baines entered its third full day on Friday and regardless of an enormous quantity of floor coated round Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park, little has been found in regards to the 83-year-old’s whereabouts.
“The terrain within the park is extremely various,” Leigh Pearson of Vernon Search and Rescue mentioned.
Pearson mentioned a few of the 50 searchers from across the Southern Inside had been diverted to neighbourhoods on Friday. They knocked on round 50 doorways, requesting footage from yard cameras and entry to yards.
“Official provincial search and rescue members will likely be sporting search and rescue identifiable clothes and have provincial ID,” Pearson mentioned. “Statistically, the best chance of finding an individual in any such search is inside a construction.”
It has but to yield a lead. Nor has a drone search of the world that began earlier this week.
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A problem confronted by searchers is that Baines, who was just lately identified with dementia, would possible have left with solely the garments on his again, Pearson mentioned. So which means he isn’t prone to drop objects and depart a path.
Pearson mentioned they’re deciding in the present day if the search will likely be suspended pending new leads. The top of in the present day’s search is 4 p.m., as a consequence of security dangers related to after-dark rescue efforts.
The North Okanagan man is five-foot-nine, 200 kilos, bald and has brown eyes.
He was final seen sporting a inexperienced Tilly hat, inexperienced jacket gray undershirt, blue denims and white climbing sneakers.
The trajectory of his journey can be tough to nail down, in order that widens search parametres.
“That positively complicates issues massively,” Pearson mentioned.
Anybody who lives within the space and isn’t dwelling however want to allow a search is requested to ahead their tackle to [email protected].
If the property does get searched, search and rescuers will depart a chunk of flagging tape with search and rescue markings.
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