Missing 11-Year-Old-Male, Convict Lake Area At 1403 hours the Team was called to assist in the search for an 11-year-old non-verbal boy with autism in the Convict Lake area. The family reported that he had wandered away at approximately 1300 hours from the west end of the lake.
Rescue base was established at the Convict Lake Marina, and the Team responded with search and rescue personnel as well as our Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) and water rescue equipment.
As the Team was preparing to launch the IRB, a report came in that the boy had been found by Long Valley Fire (LVFD), who was also assisting in the search. LVFD reported that they had searched the area around the creek and circled back—they believe they may have 'flushed' the boy back to the lake, where he was held by a pair of fishermen who had been notified of the search.
Preparing to launch the rescue boat.
The family was reunited with the boy and they were chartered across the lake by a Convict Lake Marina pontoon boat.
The call was terminated at 1456 hours.
IC: Rhoads Ops Leader: Thompson Responders: Lipman, Quiring, Buchanan, Cucura, Huizingh, Knight, Barker, Wallace, Case, Cowan, Thompson