The search was suspended tonight.
From the RCMP press release at 5:00 pmOne of BC's largest search efforts has been scaled down and suspended after twelve exhastive days of searching for Tyler Wright. Today, Sunday August 29th seven assigments were tasked out for searching, all of these tasks were completed except for two in the Coquitlam area due to weather. All searches today were negative and a decision by the RCMP, Search Managers, Provincial Emergency Program to suspend the search was made. There are outstanding tasks that will be completed weather permitting and the investigation into this missing person case will remain active.
As of Saturday there were 111 areas searched in 200 sq km of terrain, involving 26 different routes and 213 assignments with well over 5,000 searcher hours on the ground. A recap of helicopter hours and actual final tally will be released in an updated release when all data has been reviewed and compiled.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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