![]() ![]() John and Daniella, accompanied us, as volunteers from Search and Rescue, for El Dorado County. The next day, Wednesday, we recovered the rest of her remains for the Sheriff’s Department. At the request of the Sheriff’s Department, we recovered a portion the remains for possible proper identification. We confirmed what appeared to be a female body. We located a good target with our sonar and then proceeded to use our ROV. Officer Frisby and another Detective, Jake, accompanied us. The following day we had access to the Police Report information and began to run Klein 3900 sonar. We did some ROV work checking the bottom and the depth, as there are no underwater depth/topo maps for that particular lake. Our first day, the search started in the late afternoon. The lake and its surrounding area was beautiful with steep mountain sides, large cedars and beautiful shoreline. The access road was about 4 miles long, a one lane narrow road. Beth and I, and the 2 officers, wasted no time and went there directly- only minutes away. The case was regarding a drowning victim as a result of a canoe accident from 1996 AND a possible suicide in the same lake by this victim’s mother, in 2001. Frisby and Almos had a cold case, only a mile away, on Fallen Leaf Lake. At that point, we had a couple of days before another search. Almos, both of El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. The fire produced a heavy amount of smoke that at one point created a huge plume skyward.įire engines were staged at the meadow area beyond the Highway 89 Snopark off of Cathedral Road.On Monday, August 28, 2017, after our Dan Pham recovery in Lake Tahoe, we had lunch and discussion with Detective D. Trees were reportedly burning rapidly in the area, with at least four trees burning at their crowns. While flames had come close to cabins in the area, fire crews stood nearby the homes to protect them, she added. Some of the fire path moved with the westerly and southwest winds into an area with large rocks and the lake, making it a natural barrier, said Peggy O’Connell, a Forest Service dispatcher. The sentiment was the same at the Fallen Leaf Lake General Store. “We can see the smoke, and we’re definitely keeping our eyes open,” said Blair Caley at Stanford Sierra Camp. “The high winds aren’t helping,” he said, dashing under a tree as a helicopter flew by.īusinesses at Fallen Leaf Lake were keeping a keen eye on the direction of the smoke, and no evacuations at the lake had been reported. Magnus Sgloberg of Livermore also got turned around from his hike up Mount Tallac. Their skin was covered with the fire retardant, which is non-toxic. ![]() ![]() “We were just going on a hike and stayed too long,” South Shore resident Richard Reeves said on the trail with Raenne Wilson. Hikers were scurrying down the Tallac Trail Monday afternoon, and some were caught in the spray of retardant from the air tankers. The popular route into the Desolation Wilderness begins near Camp Shelley off Highway 89. and traveled with wind gusts clocked at 18 mph, consuming manzanita, igniting three spot fires and other brush in a matter of seconds off the Tallac Trail. The fire was called in at about 12:34 p.m. ![]()
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