UPDATE 7:00 pm, 6/9/20 - Search for Sebastian Rodriguez Castro
The
search continues for Sebastian Rodriguez Castro, who went missing from his Eagle
Villas apartment the evening of Friday, June 6. Over 500 volunteers and nearly
30 first response agencies have helped search for him over the past four days.
Search teams have utilized dogs on both land and water, and have also searched
by air via helicopters and drones. Efforts to find him have so far been unsuccessful.
The
incident continues to be managed as Unified Command between the Eagle Police
Department, Greater Eagle Fire Protection District and Vail Mountain Rescue.
Today, Fire Chief Doug Cupp assumed the Incident Commander position, and will
be leading the search and rescue teams over the next several operational
periods.
Search
teams continue to comb the river from Eagle to Hanging Lake. This short video
clip shows some of the search activity from the viewpoint of one of the search
UAVs (drones).
Public
safety officials continue to emphasize the dangerous conditions in and around
the river and discourage members of the public from conducting their own
searches in those areas. Water-based search efforts should be left to our
highly trained water rescue teams. If citizens were to be injured or need
rescue, it would divert valuable resources away from the search.
