Search ramps up for B.C. couple missing in backcountry since Friday
Global News
Glen and Eva Hamakawa were last seen on Friday morning, Oct. 1, when the pair left their campsite at the Crump Recreational Site on an ATV.
Search efforts are ramping up as emergency responders race against the clock to find a missing B.C. couple who went camping in the Okanagan backcountry.
The Hamakawas, Glen (67) and Eva (56), were last seen Friday morning, Oct. 1, when they left their campsite at the Crump Recreational Site on their black Polaris side-by-side ATV. They haven’t been heard from since.
Randy Brown, the search manager with Penticton Search and Rescue, said additional volunteer search and rescue teams were being deployed to the scene on Sunday.
“Teams from Princeton, Oliver, Osoyoos and Kelowna assisted. Last night the managers got together and planned again today, put out a request for teams in the region as far away as Merritt, and the command centre is set up again this morning at the Crump Recreation Site and the search has already commenced,” Brown told Global News.
Brown said the area is popular with campers, hunters and people using their recreational vehicles, but the topography is vast, rugged and steep.
“This is a significant area with a lot of trails and we are looking at an area with no pre-determined location where they are heading, so it’s looking for 100 square miles trying to cover all of those areas and some of the trails are very steep, the terrain is steep, so we’ve got lots of work to do.”
Brown said the pair, who live in Bridal Falls, did not issue a distress signal, no GPS tracking device is available, and there’s no indication which direction the Hamakawas travelled.
“There are lots of hunters in the area, so we are hoping that somebody will have a clue or have seen them, and then they can contact the police and we will be able to narrow down the search area,” he said.
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