One person is still unaccounted for after a fishing boat reportedly capsized on the Fraser River near Yale, B.C., Friday afternoon.
In a post to Facebook, Hope Volunteer Search and Rescue (HSAR) said the rescue operation “quickly transitioned” into a search after personnel pulled one person out of the water, who immediately told them there was another person in the water.
According to the volunteer group, they aided RCMP with the search after the capsize was reported to police around 2:30 p.m. PT.
“Our jet boat members searched from above the point the boat was seen capsized in Yale, down to Hope,” said HSAR.
RCMP’s Air One helicopter located the first person in the water Friday, according to HSAR’s post, but as the search for the second subject progressed along the Fraser River to Hope, the second person wasn’t located.
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“Additional members were picked up by Valley Helicopter and searched the river until sundown,” said HSAR.
HSAR said the private helicopter was then redeployed Saturday morning and its “members searched all of the accessible areas along the riverbank” by the evening, but “the second subject has not yet been located.”
Kent Harrison Search and Rescue also assisted with the search for the second person, according to the post.
CBC News reached out to the RCMP and HSAR to confirm this incident occurred and the status of its search but did not hear back by publication.
