A Worried Community Eager to Find Missing Girls
![Humboldt County Sheriff Bill Honsal hugs Supervisor Estelle Fennell shortly before search teams held a debriefing at the command post. [Photo by Mark McKenna]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SEARCH.SO_.HUM_.BENBOW.DSC_9387.jpg)
Humboldt County Sheriff Bill Honsal hugs Supervisor Estelle Fennell as a concerned community awaits news of two missing sisters, Leia and Caroline Carrico in the Southern Humboldt area.[Photo by Mark McKenna]
Leia and Caroline Carrico [Crop of a photo provided by the girls’ mother.]
People want desperately to help.
Local volunteer search teams, neighbors, helicopters, drones, canine crews as well as teams from across the state have been combing the areas near the girls’ home since the girls were reported missing March 1. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is currently asking that people stay away from the area unless they have permission to be there.
There is a way locals can help though. Lonny Whitlow, a businessman in Miranda has been asked to be the Food Coordinator for the search teams and their support crews. He is asking for donations to feed the volunteers. Local businesses have have already pitched it.
![The South Fork booster clubs food trailer will be used to help feed the volunteer teams. [Photo by Lonny Whitlow]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/feeding-the-volunteers.png)
The South Fork booster clubs food trailer will be used to help feed the volunteer teams. [Photo by Lonny Whitlow]
“We need minor things like paper towels and bagels,” he said. Though he said they have plenty of fruit.
If you donate, please consider minimizing trips down by sending donations with others. Please try not to impede the searchers. Get in and out of the command center as quickly as possible.
Earlier Chapters:
- Ongoing Search and Rescue for Two Young Girls in the Twin Trees Area of Southern Humboldt
- Two Young Girls Lost in the Woods Overnight in Southern Humboldt While Their Family Worries
- Sheriff’s Department Releases More on the Missing Girls in Humboldt County
- FBI and Child Abduction Team Consulting in Case of Missing Girls
- Have You Seen Us? Public Asked to Share Flyer About Missing Girls
- Private Drone ‘Almost Caused a Serious Incident’ With Search Helicopter Looking for Leia and Caroline
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Amber Alert time? My heart hurts so much for all involved, sending prayers and love that these baby girls are found safe & soon. As a mother my heart & stomach are torn with sadness for these two children.
I believe but not positive your (our) prays have been answered. Someone said they been found.
Honsal and Fennell are so Humboldt County in that picture. Pathetic. Street drug economy that was addictive to local government and businesses was great for decades and now finally shows the area and people for what they’ve become: Haggard and strung out – just as Honsal and Fennell so clearly show. An ugly and rotted show indeed.
It is your comment that is ugly, so ugly.
~the difference here is that, SoUgly has a protected guarantee of freedom of speech.
Neither Estelle nor Honsal have delegated authority to call-up the National Guard.
The National Guard has no delegated authority to respond to The County calling for help.
A riot situation where the police have lost control -the Mayor teles. the Gov.
Breach of Oaths all the way around.
Fentanyl an honnsal together looking straight drugged out.
Really upsetting. Estelle Fennel a real actress!
Nailed it.
That is not acting. That is showing real human anguish. Your lens is clouded by your own personal perspective.
Estelle “Getty”???!!!
Is there a location in Garberville of a single point drop-off for supplies rather than inundated command. Got paper towels, toilet paper, tooth brushes, energy bars anything else needed. I be headin down the hill in an hour.
I repeat again shame on anyone commenting other than prayers or blessings. Keep your political, negative crap and armchair sleuthing to yourselves. If you ain’t out there you ain’t no expert and your opinions means nothing to us in this community.
I think she genuinely cares !
About this, MAYBE anything else, “fuged aboud it”!!!!
Press conference has been delayed due to developing information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUvdE_M92Aw
Is Estelle searching or just conveniently standing around for every PR moment? Um hummmm, I don’t buy it, shame on you. Why aren’t you looking too Estelle, since you have access? Unlike the other hundreds of community members who wish to search themselves also & are not allowed to!
Shame on you for your negative and uncalled for comment. Estelle is not a member of a search and rescue team. She is there as a concerned community member who is our district Supervisor.
Shame on me for pointing out a political figure taking advantage of free PR, during a crisis?
Ya shame on me & freedom of speech!
They were found alive and well this morning!
Is this true. Hopefully so
Confirmed. They were found safe this morning. It’s all over the news.
Hooray!!!!! Yes… Thank you to all who did the finding.
Kids are home safe. I watched a reunion video that was online (sorry, not at liberty to link it) a couple hours ago. They looked in good shape and Dad cried.
Prayers for their safe return!
Add rex bone into that top photo and you would have the 3 biggest theives in the county,and yeah she’s acting for votes that hopefully nobody gives her.destroy our home and our businesses while committing treason against the United states of America by violating the 8th amendment (no American citizen shall be excessively fined or have there real property stolen from them by the government) Nothing short of treason against this great nation! !!!!!!
The National Guard.
Hall’s comment above is correct. The girls were found safe and sound a few hours ago. It is a top headline in almost every news outlet in the US right now.
I expect a post by Kim with the good news shortly.
Estell just showed up for a photo op and to get in the way.I hear she was of no help at all.
And who told you that, nose in the know?
Everybody that’s seen the videos? Estelle didn’t need to be there. She didn’t do anything.
That would surprise me exactly this much!!!!
Hey. I just want to say back off Estelle on this one. She was right in there with the rest of us, worrying, crying,praying and you can bet politicking. You can bee sure that she had a lot to do with the helicopters and search dogs and out of county agencies being there to help. And yes it was our own that found the girls, God bless them, and we’re really proud of that but, I for one, really appreciate all the resources that were there for little Leah and even littler Caroline. Now, because of all of us they are home safe and sound. I am so proud to call southern humboldt my home
Bravo! Tell it like it is, Kenny. And thanks for being there and helping.
Thank You, Kenny. It is most awful to see some of the comments in this comment section, made by people who were sitting on their asses spewing poison about this place and the people who live here. I don’t get it that ms. Kemp finds it necessary to publish such unmitigated garbage while (local) people spent hours into the night looking for these two beautiful children. Thank goodness they were found safe (and hopefully sound). Willy van Doorn.
So glad theyre ok!
Good job parents, youve trained your girls well!!! Im a big sis and can totally see myself at that age not wanting to wait for mom to go on walk but knowing we would need rain boots&jackets, hats, and granola bars. What mom would do.
I luv that in most parts of humboldt girls learn the same skills as boys and are very savvy in the woods.
Now go buy whistles for your whole family and keep them in whatever jacket you go outside in.
So happy for this family. Tough little girls. Pretty confidant my teenagers would not survive 48 hours without their cell phones.
I am deeply grateful for everyone that helped in the situation to find my little girls, but I sincerely hope proper phrase is given to the right people. The technical rescue groups and the volunteer search and rescue were the ones that had boots on the ground for hours and days at a time, along with local volunteers and friends and family,volunteer fire department and the local businesses that donated so much are the ones that should be getting the majority of the credit and I thank them from the bottom of my heart. I owe them all a dept ill will never be able to repay… A special thanks to my friends and family that refused to give up and had no respite the entire time and also to Luke and Justin who refused to stop looking against orders from their Commanders. These two along with my good friend Jessie we’re the ones that got us on the right track in the area where the girls were found. Along with Michaela a local psychic, whom I scoffed at and was proven utterly wrong, when she pointed out exactly where my girls were, thank you!
I’m so glad you’re reunited and well. Thank you for posting this.
You must feel blessed, and rightly so. All is well.
Dang THC, dang dang.
Huge relief for you and yours.
I’m real happy for you all.
Way to post up some details, amazing!
Thank God they were found safe and sound! A humongous cyber hug to you, your family, to all the rescue teams and to those who helped however they could. Like a poster (Shanna) mentioned in another thread, we feel like we can finally breathe again. That was tough for us, but nothing as tough as what you had to endure. HUGS!
THC, We are all living your utmost happiness vicariously. Thank you for sharing even in this harrowing time for your family. We are all so relieved and heartwarmed. What troopers your girls are! Amazing! Sipping water from huckleberry leaves….like little fairies. Glad you’ll be able to sleep tonight!
Seriously nothing short of a miracle! I am so entirely happy these girls were found, and are ok! Very very thankful people did not give up! Sometimes it takes moving out of our comfort zone to produce Miracles.. Thanks for filling folks in! Givin so much thanx and blessings to you and all who thier coordinated efforts right now! Yes!!! 🤗🍀
Its fantastic that your daughters were found safe!
Be skeptical about Michaela. Your personal observations, during emotional times, are the worst form of evidence possible. Those who prey on people in difficult situations with quackery are the lowest of the low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_detective#Scientific_studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQHYkyq7Hs
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/psychic-sylvia-brown-amanda-berry_n_3238316.html
I have to disagree with you in regards to her. At first I was extremely skeptical,she took us out to the place she felt the kids were at and we found no evidence to support it and it did not seem like a likely Direction they would go in. Then went on to search other areas. A day and a half later the girls were found in almost the exact location she said they were. The problem was they were next to a very loud Creek and we cannot hear them yelling at us though they could hear us yelling at them. They said they heard people yelling at least five or eight times and yelled back but we just could not hear them. It tears me up to know I was Within yards of their location and just could not find them, which cost them another night out in the cold rain. She also never asked for anything in return for her services.
When you’re in a situation like the one my wife and I faced over the last couple days, you will take positive, happy thoughts, prayers or any kind of voodoo magic offered to bring the result of having your little babies brought home.
Thousands of hearts have been uplifted by your wonderful safe ending to the story THC….we are all so happy for your family….
and Bless you Michaela!
Yeah we got lucky on this one,god-buddha-ja-Mohammed was shining down on two innocent children today.A family will not be devastated today.thanks to the volunteers! !!!!
Estelle is still a theiving troll !!!!!!
Thermal infrared cameras used to image heat are on every Coast Guard helicopter. The images can be so clear that animals like deer or rabbits can be discerned from humans. The only thing that would preclude images is branches or thick over brush. If the girls went under a tree or some cover the TIC would not function. And it is difficult to say the girls would hear the helicopter and go to an open area. There are also hand carried thermal cameras I would think all fireman have in their equipment. I am not sure why the Sheriff would not want as many people as possible to canvas the area. With hand carried thermal cameras and two way radios any evidence can be radioed into a center. And the use of loud speakers when walking although with small children they might shout to answer. The worse case scenario is someone picked them up. Or worse yet one or both were injured. Another reason to have as many boots on the ground as possible. Not sure all this helps, but only to be informative.
It is heartbreaking how under-equipped our search-and-rescue teams are around here, things that you think would be absolutely standard they cannot acquire because of budget issues. I sincerely hope a larger portion of the new taxes levied against us will go towards equipment that will help in these kinds of situations.
Maybe they saw this movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjKrI-bmzE
Because I am grateful for all the help I received from anybody willing to help, I am going to bite my tongue on the feelings I have about certain agencies that came to participate.
I will say this, because of the bierocracy that ties up our local law enforcement, it was a real hindrance to their ability to be affected at just about anything. The attitude the sheriff presented to a lot of the volunteers that were just trying to help was astonishing, I understand that the situation needed to be controlled and we had some real issues with people interfering with the search, but the way some of the situations and some of the attitudes even towards the volunteer technical rescue crews made my heart ache. If it was not for the volunteers my little girls may not have been found alive…
We plan on doing one small interview with the news agencies to allow my girls to tell their story, because we think it’s essential that people know how to prepare their children’s for surviving in the woods /world. The first night they were out it got down to 38 degrees and it rained all night, this is something a lot of people would not have been able to survive, let alone two little girls on their own in the dark. Because of lessons taught at home and learn at Adventure Camp performed by 4-H my little girls survive this…. but I am now going to spend a lot of time with my children and we will probably sleep for a week in a nice dry,warm bed instead of a clump of Huckleberry brush :>) 😂😂
I know our family has been hugging a lot. (Malachi hugged me like a bear when he heard Leia and Caroline were found.) Tell the girls their 4-H family is really glad they were smart and strong through such a scary time.
Thank you for everything Kym.
Huge huge huge hug! We are all blessed a little to see this miracle.
should have bit yer tongue harder.
Well you are certainly entitled to your opinion…
Wow, I didn’t realize superheroes had such a low level of comprehension.
GROW UP, BATMAN.
Literally, this 5 year old is obviously smarter AND wiser than you.
She survived this mess. I question whether you would have, in her situation.
Your apparent lack of intelligence implies the answer.
Yes I hope some physic finds me next time I get lost in Richardson grove.
nope, i wont waste my time looking for you, batman. and i doubt after this anyone else will waste their time on you either.
bye now.
I hope they do too, not even a troll deserves to die of exposure…
Blessings THC! Mamma and you are raising strong women with no fear.
Maybe a little too Fearless, but we all learned a very valuable lesson in this situation. The kids from now on will be equipped with an emergency kit consisting of at least a thermal blanket, an energy bar, a whistle, water and a small GPS tracker, in a fanny pack.