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Search for missing 18-year-old hiker continues in the San Joaquin River Gorge
PRATHER, Calif. (KFSN) -- The flow of the San Joaquin River remains reduced as searchers continue looking for 18-year-old Jared Gardner, but his uncle John Foster says hope is fading.
"Today is a hard day. I think as the time passes the reality of our situation kind of sets in."
But Lt. Kathy Curtice of the Fresno County Sheriffs Department says search teams have not given up.
"We have teams on the ground we have teams in the year with both a drone and the helicopter, and we are just trying to catch any evidence of where he might be."
Jared Gardner and six friends were hiking the canyon and stopped to rest just below a footbridge near the Kerckhoff power plant when a surge of water released upstream from the Kerckhoff Dam hit.
Jianna Vang says she has swept away with Jared and another girl, "It was so fast and it came out of nowhere and the waves were just pushing us between the rocks."
Jianna was pushed several hundred feet down the river channel but managed to get out. She saw Jared push another girl to safety then watched him disappear.
"The last thing he did was save her, and then the last thing I saw was him going down the river in front of us."
[...]
Video at link: http://abc30.com/search-for-missing-hiker-continues/3474474/
More: http://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article211086514.html
https://www.facebook.com/abc30/posts/10155618547956482
PRATHER, Calif. (KFSN) -- The flow of the San Joaquin River remains reduced as searchers continue looking for 18-year-old Jared Gardner, but his uncle John Foster says hope is fading.
"Today is a hard day. I think as the time passes the reality of our situation kind of sets in."
But Lt. Kathy Curtice of the Fresno County Sheriffs Department says search teams have not given up.
"We have teams on the ground we have teams in the year with both a drone and the helicopter, and we are just trying to catch any evidence of where he might be."
Jared Gardner and six friends were hiking the canyon and stopped to rest just below a footbridge near the Kerckhoff power plant when a surge of water released upstream from the Kerckhoff Dam hit.
Jianna Vang says she has swept away with Jared and another girl, "It was so fast and it came out of nowhere and the waves were just pushing us between the rocks."
Jianna was pushed several hundred feet down the river channel but managed to get out. She saw Jared push another girl to safety then watched him disappear.
"The last thing he did was save her, and then the last thing I saw was him going down the river in front of us."
[...]
Video at link: http://abc30.com/search-for-missing-hiker-continues/3474474/
More: http://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article211086514.html
https://www.facebook.com/abc30/posts/10155618547956482