[UPDATE: Found Deceased] Around 60 Personnel Search For Humboldt County Man Missing in the Trinity Alps
Search teams load up in a helicopter to be taken into the wilderness to look for Daniel Komins, a hiker last heard from on Monday. [Photo from Trinity County Sheriff’s Office]
The Search and Rescue efforts pertaining to Daniel Komins continued throughout the day of August 17, 2019.
Approximately sixty Search and Rescue members are assigned to the search effort. Approximately twenty of these members are assigned to operations, logistics and command related tasks, while forty members are on foot in the Trinity Alps.
The forty Search and Rescue members in the Trinity Alps have been divided into twelve teams. These twelve teams have various assignments and search areas.
All twelve teams were inserted into high elevation areas via helicopter. These teams are scheduled to remain in their search areas overnight, in order to continue searching on August 18, 2019. Many of these teams are assigned to off trail search areas, presenting dangerous and arduous conditions for the team members themselves.
Two California National Guard helicopters are presently assigned to the daytime search efforts. These helicopters continue to fly the area searching for Komins as well as insert search teams as required. A third helicopter is assigned to the nighttime search efforts, and is scheduled to conduct an infrared helicopter flight during the late evening of August 17, 2019.
The Search and Rescue efforts will continue on August 18, 2019.
Once additional information is obtained, supplemental press releases shall be issued.
Persons of Interest:
Daniel Komins, Date of Birth: April 12, 1985Agencies involved:Search parties gathered for briefing. [Photo from TCSO]
Trinity County Sheriff’s Office
Trinity County Search and Rescue
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit
Butte County Search and Rescue
Marin County Search and Rescue
Contra Costa County Search and Rescue
Shasta County Search and Rescue
California Highway Patrol
California National GuardSearch teams
UPDATE: Missing Blue Lake Hiker Found Dead
Earlier Chapters with more information:
- Blue Lake EMT Missing After Hike in Trinity Alps
- Missing Hiker’s Companions Located and They Know He Was in Good Health Monday Morning
- Band of Brothers (and Sisters): Local Fire and Medical Community Gather to Search for Missing Hiker
- This Morning, Teams Prepare to Search Trinity Alps In Area Where Hiker Went Missing
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It’s what we do. We care for one another. We are a human tribe. There is no expense to consider greater than the love we feel for our fellow in need…whether lost in the woods or in the street.
I strive to be like these humble people, sacrificing time and comforts to find another. They know it could easily be them.
I do.
And I thank them all!
Yea I wonder why they don’t look this hard for everyone who gets lost? Sounds like special treatment to me!! Hope hes found tho!
Wow, you sound like someone without an ounce of compassion. You are not a nice person.
It’s true though and has nothing to do with compassion or the lack of it. Certainly did not merit that last remark. It course all the people who know him from his own service would rally round. https://kymkemp.com/2019/08/16/band-of-brothers-and-sisters-local-fire-and-medical-community-gather-to-search-for-missing-hiker/
Thank you for the updates!!!
Second what worried wrote.
Glad to read infrared is happening.
Sooooo hoping to wake up tomorrow&read hes found ok!!!
Same here!
Finally a good use of a helicopter! I wish those amazing rescuers a safe and fruitful outcome, and a welcome home for Mr. Komins.
🕯🌳I’ll second that. 👍🏽And I hope find him good spirits.
Thank you all for doing such a great job!
Are they using blood hounds or other types of dogs for this rescue…?
I feel bad for my earlier comments, saying it was over reacting. Seems to be a serious situation. My condolences. It is a beautiful but wild and unforgiving environment up there in the high country. Hope he is sound safe.
And I feel bad about one of my insensitive comments. I hope everything turns out OK. Praise and thanks to the searchers and I hope this turns out to be a great fireside story in years ahead.
Kudos to you both!
We all say things we wish we hadnt so i appreciate you both writing this, setting a good example.
It looks like PJ helicopters is helping as well. I wonder if their LIDAR units will help in this scenario. …
Civil Air Patrol. I’m not sure their role in this… radio relay perhaps. Or just another set of eyes in the sky.
Updated. I’m not sure why so much effort around Silgio Peak. That’s a long ways from where he was last seen and where he seemed intent on going.
If you hike in the wilderness stay with the group. Period. Jack London wrote a great short story about this. “The Wisdom of the Trail.”
He was not with a group. He was hiking alone. The people he met was a chance encounter and they parted ways.
So I’m guessing you never drive right? 30,000+ a year fatal accidents compared to 140 fatal hikes a year. You must loose your mind and tell everyone not to drive when they get in a car right?
Don’t push your fear of life on others because the one in a million chance of it going bad.
The most dangerous situations I had in the Alps were always from weirdos I would run into, that is for anyone who would post about not being prepared or something else just as dumb.
Since this has our minds on the wilds, I will share this. I taught wilderness survival for years. The number one failing that just kept being repeated, so much so it has to be a failing in the modern human psyche, was shelter siteing. People put their shelter near a natural hazard, usually a snag, more times than not, it was crazy. There is a national forest campsite at the top of my road they had to close because of 3 obvious crumbling old growth snags right in the campground, people pushed aside the signs and “Caution” tape and camped there all deer season, for years.
Stay safe everyone and hoping for the best.
Why has the search been called off?
Where did you hear that?
Search plane just turned around without bothering to go up the canyon.
https://www.flightradar24.com/CAP438/21bf8942
That’s not the civil air patrol. (edit: N9538E is CAP, but not the same plane) N743CP it landed an hour ago after being in the air for 4 hours.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N743CP
There is at least 2 helicopters up there; CHP and PJ helicopters both headed that way before disappearing from radar. And the National Guard has people in the air.
He’s been found deceased. They just released the info 5 minutes ago. Kym is all over it already and has a new article.
https://kymkemp.com/2019/08/18/missing-blue-lake-hiker-found-dead/
Oh, that is so, so sad. Condolences to all his many friends, and his family and loved ones. I want to say more, about him dying doing what he loved, etc., but those words just seem hollow right now and I am heartsick. What a sad loss. RIP.
Why are all these people seeking the missing 73 year old man? I really don’t understand this.