One of the two people who were reported missing at Yosemite National Park has reportedly been found. Dave Brown was speaking with National Park Service officials, according to Wolfgang Knabe, chief of the Fullerton Fire Department. He was in good health.
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KFSN reports (http://abc30.tv/2ckX780 ) Brown and Capt. Javier Avelar planned a six-day backpacking trip near Hetch Hetchy and did not return Sunday.
The National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch released this image of Fullerton firefighters Javier Avelar and Dave Brown on September 13, 2016.
The search for Avelar is ongoing.
The firefighters had not contacted their families or the fire department, according to Knabe.
Yosemite National Park officials say the two Fullerton firefighters planned to hike the Smith Meadow Trail and finish through White Wolf Sunday.
They were on a six-day backpacking trip that started in the White Wolf area of the almost 1,200-square-mile park last Tuesday, according to a flier distributed on the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch’s Facebook page.
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A search is about to resume in Yosemite for two overdue firefighters from Fullerton. The National Park Service is leading the search with about 20 National Parks Service members, and are being assisted by seven Fullerton Fire Department members.
