'Hope that she'll be a miracle': Family, volunteers continue to search for hiker Melissa McDevitt near Sooke
On the fifth day of searching for lost hiker Melissa McDevitt near Sooke the hopes of finding her alive, while not gone, are diminishing.
“Certainly with each day the worry is greater, we are concerned about her survivability and we’ve had those conversations, teams are briefed that if she is located alive she’s going to be very hypothermic and is going to need to be treated very, very carefully,” said Paul Berry, President of Comox Valley Search and Rescue.
The 39-year-old’s father, who has travelled to Vancouver Island from North Carolina, is out for a second day helping with the search. He says he’s aware that at this point it would take a miracle for the happy reunion he is desperate for.“We’re going to continue to hope that she’ll be a miracle but it’s equally important that we just have a recovery and that we can have closure for our family and take our daughter home,” said an emotional Tom McDevitt at the search site Wednesday afternoon.
While McDevitt is grateful to the nine teams of searchers spending every waking hour trying to find his daughter, the searchers themselves are equally grateful to have Tom there. “His love for his daughter is immense and has been conveyed to the team, we’ve all seen it and I think that’s inspired the members to continue the search with good heart and great hope,” said Victoria Clarke, Manager ofSearchers on Wednesday were focusing on areas besides the trails Melissa most likely would have travelled but they’re also dealing with the possibility she could have become disoriented in the dark and wandered further off the trail system.
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