Just shortly after dawn to dusk, they’ve been out.” “Basically, it’s beating the bushes,” he said. Hobler said KSAR deployed varied and thorough techniques, noting it used search dogs and “some of the best search managers in the province to help profiling and find locations to look.” “Not to say that something been missed - that’s always a possibility - but the effort to continue versus the probability of finding something is quite a bit lower now,” he said. Hobler said the team has extensively searched both areas RCMP requested KSAR to search. There’s also the recent snowfall in the areas searched which makes the probability of finding something lower and the likelihood of missing something much higher. “Searchers get tired and, when searchers get tired, the higher the likelihood of injuries as well,” Hobler said. The decision to recommend halting KSAR efforts ultimately came from the RCMP, Hobler said, noting it would have also been search and rescue’s recommendation due to a number of factors.Īt this point, the likelihood of searchers getting hurt is higher than the likelihood of finding something, Hobler told KTW. 10, with about 3,000 search hours accumulated. “It’s completely unprecedented how hard we searched,” Hobler said, noting searches were conduced every day, except for one day, dating back to Nov. Kamloops Search and Rescue manager Alan Hobler said the team is burned out and, after finding no sign of White following one last major search effort over the weekend, KSAR’s operations have been suspended pending any new information that comes to light. The sightings led police and KSAR to search for White daily in unspecified areas west and north of Kamloops, with this past weekend’s final searched focused on the Heffley Creek area, according to Kamloops RCMP. before returning south at about 6:15 p.m.
1 - first driving west on the Trans-Canada Highway shortly after White was supposed to have arrived at work at 8:30 a.m., leaving town for a 45-minute period, then travelling north on Highway 5, passing by Rayleigh at about 5:30 p.m.
Kamloops police have since learned the vehicle was spotted twice on Nov. 2, abandoned downtown in the 200-block of Nicola Street.
Her 1997 Jeep TJ was found the next afternoon, Nov. 1 when she left her basement suite home on Bestwick Court in Lower Sahali to drive to work at Kamloops Hyundai, a dealership two kilometres away on Notre Dame Drive in Southgate. The 32-year-old White was last seen on the morning of Nov. Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) has suspended its search efforts for missing woman Shannon White after spending some 3,000 hours in the past two weeks scouring forested areas north and west of the city.