By Brooks Bulletin Editor -October 8, 2019
SANDRA M STANWAY
Brooks Bulletin
As of Monday morning search and rescue workers had still not located a Calgary man who was reported missing on Lake Newell on Saturday night.
Police and other First Responders, including the RCMP helicopter from Edmonton and the Calgary Police HAWCS helicopter had spent most of the weekend in and around the lake searching for the overdue boater.
Brooks RCMP Sgt. Bruce McDonald said police received the call of an overdue boater at about 8:15 p.m. and HAWCS was called in to assist a short time later. HAWCS searched for about an hour before returning to Calgary. The search resumed at first light on Sunday.
“On Sunday morning we initiated an extensive ground and water search,” he said.
Searchers did find an unoccupied boat washed up on shore.
On Sunday searchers included firefighters from Brooks, Vulcan County, the South Eastern Alberta Search and Rescue team from Medicine Hat and Alberta Conservation as well as the RCMP and the HAWCS and RCMP helicopters.
The search resumed Monday morning.
No other information on the missing boater is being released.
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