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Report on search of
January 30, 2006
How far can a missing person travel in three days?
And how far do you search from the PLS (point last scene) for that
missing person. And how do you maintain contact with the teams spread out over
that wide of an area?
The answer to the last question, of course, is Amateur Radio.
Hams once again proved their value to the Coos County Sheriff's Search
and Rescue Team. In the search of
January 30, 2006
, eight SAR members along with volunteers from the Sumner Fire Company and a BLM
ranger searched the roads, ditches, fields and woods from Sumner to the West as
well as the
Blue Ridge
road to Stock Slough road in the North and both sides of Catching Slough.
Never once was a HAM equipped team out of contact with the Command Post
set up in the Sumner Fire House.
Although the missing man wasn't located, truckers reported sighting him
south of Port Orford on US 1. If
accurate, the reports would indicate he was hitch-hiking to his home in
California
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From The World
01-31-06
Search team fails to find
man
A
Eureka
,
Calif.
, man has been missing since Friday in the
Coos
Bay
area.
According to a Coos County Sheriff's Office press tape, at approximately
12:50 p.m.
Friday, deputies received a report that 27-year-old Jonathan Peters was
missing.
Peters and a friend, 26-year-old Brian Campbell, also from
Eureka
, had arrived in the area on Thursday to work for a landscape company. The two
men stayed in a yurt at
Sunset
Bay
State Park
campground, on
Cape Arago Highway
, Thursday night and were transported to a work site Friday morning at
94762 Coos Sumner Lane
.
The tape indicated at approximately
9 a.m.
, Peters walked off the job.
Campbell
unsuccessfully searched the area and then reported Peters missing. Deputies
also unsuccessfully searched the Sumner area and
Sunset
Bay
campground Friday afternoon.
On Monday morning, personnel from the Sheriff's Office, Sumner Rural Fire
Protection District and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management continued the search
without finding Peters.
Peters is described as 6 feet, 2 inches tall, between 170 and 180 pounds,
with a shaved head and little to no facial hair. He was last seen wearing a blue
down coat, desert camouflage BDU-style pants and a black beanie-style cap.
Anyone with information about Peters is asked to call Cpl. Grant at the
Sheriff's Office, 396-3121, ext. 725.
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