UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Officials are continuing to conduct rescue searches based on reports that came in on Sunday night regarding two different missing individuals, each reported to have gone into local creeks.
Northshore Fire Protection District firefighters were dispatched to the 9100 block of Bridge Arbor Road near Upper Lake shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday on the report of a male subject n the water. Radio reports said he had either fallen or jumped into the creek.
Fire Chief Jay Beristianos said they searched the area from Middle Creek and Upper Lake down to the Rodman Slough Sunday night.
Parts of the area are inaccessible on foot, so they called in a REACH helicopter to do a search from the air using spotlights, Beristianos said.
“We were unable to find anybody,” he said.
While REACH was flying, Beristianos said they received a report of another person, a female, getting into the water in the area of Rancheria Road.
He said they also were unable to locate that female subject.
Family and friends have identified the young missing woman as 23-year-old Kimberly Hazelwood.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue had taken the operation over by Monday morning, Beristianos said.
Teams were reported to have been searching the banks of the creeks on Monday morning.
Beristianos said the search and rescue operation continuing on Monday was using a National Guard helicopter.
Additional details will be posted as they become available.
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