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UPDATE – RCMP search for missing snowmobiler called off

On Feb. 23, at approximately 5:00 p.m., RCMP called off the search for missing snowmobiler Dan Lemay.
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Searcher will disband and go home with heavy hearts. Not the outcome everyone hoped for.

On Feb. 23, at approximately 5:00 p.m., RCMP called off the search for missing snowmobiler Dan Lemay.

 

Two reports of a lone snowmobiler heading northbound on Eleanor Lake on the night of February 21, near the time Lemay was reported missing, led aerial searchers to an area of open water. Trained ice rescue technicians from the Office of the Fire Commissioner attended to the open water and located snowmobile tracks that led to broken ice. There were no tracks leading away from the site.

 

Two days of searching by more than 50 volunteers and numerous trained search and rescue teams, which covered hundreds of kilometres of trails, did not lead to any other evidence of where Lemay or his snowmobile may have gone. Searchers believe Lemay entered the water and did not resurface. He is presumed drowned.

 

The search for Lemay and the snowmobile will resume in the spring once conditions are safe for a dive team to engage in the search.

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