AUG 21, 2019
Time an enemy as search for missing firefighters moves further north
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The Coast Guard said it will reevaluate its search efforts Thursday morning, but admitted that time is really becoming an enemy.
The search is expected to move as far north as North Carolina.
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Search for firefighters missing at sea reaches as far north as Cape Hatteras - OBX Today
The U.S. Coast Guard, partner agencies and volunteers have searched as far north as Cape Hatteras for two firefighters missing at sea since Friday, but the scope of the effort is becoming “untenable,” officials said Wednesday evening.
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A life ring found Wednesday turned out not to belong to either of the missing men, and a call about people on a life raft near the Georgia coast was an unrelated rescue call, the Coast Guard said.
Search efforts on Wednesday were focusing on Georgia and the Carolinas, with a Coast Guard search plane traveling as far north as Cape Hatteras, Weimers said.
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“We’re rapidly reaching a size of a search grid that becomes untenable,” Weimers said. “It’s after our first light search tomorrow that we’ll have our next set of conversations about what the future may look like.”
Boats are leaving this evening out of Savannah and Charleston to continue the search through the night, The Coast Guard said.
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