Two teenage brothers have been lacking for over every week in Northern California after they went duck searching in stormy climate on Dec. 14.
Wesley Cornett, 17, and Andruw Cornett, 19, went searching on the Thermalito Afterbay, a big physique of water in Butte County with 17 miles of shoreline and 4,300 surface acres of water.
“Approximately 250 people from 21 different organizations have been searching for Wesley and Andruw Cornett since last Saturday, the day the two brothers went missing while duck hunting at the Thermalito Afterbay,” the Butte County Sheriff’s Workplace wrote in a Fb submit earlier this week, together with a video detailing high-tech efforts to seek out the 2 lacking youngsters in weed-covered water.
Search efforts started the identical day the youngsters went lacking, with SCSO deputies, detectives, the BCSO Aviation and Marine Unit, and BCSO Search and Rescue responding to “reports that one of two duck hunters had overturned on a kayak, and the other one swam into the water to try and help.”
“Thousands of acres have been searched by boat, by ground and by raft,” Trevor Skaggs with BCSO Search and Rescue mentioned in a video posted to the sheriff’s workplace Fb web page.
Jeff Eggleson of Large Valley Divers mentioned “the most difficult thing” rescuers must do is “get through the weeds” on the base of Thermalito Afterbay.
Heavy rain and winds swept throughout Butte County on Saturday, main about 5,000 folks with out energy, in line with native information outlet Motion Information Now.
The boys’ mom, April Clark, created a GoFundMe known as “Help April Clark Find and Honor Her Sons,” hoping to boost cash for search efforts and finally for his or her funerals.
“My two handsome sons went hunting Saturday Dec 14th 2024. Wesley, 17, went out on the kayak and over turned and his brother Andruw, 19, seen him in distress called 911 and stated there was no time to wait he was going in to save his brother [sic],” Clark wrote within the GoFundMe web page description. “Neither one of my boys have been seen since Saturday. Andruw is a hero in my eyes.”
Clark added that the sheriff is now calling the seek for her sons a “recovery” mission.
“This is a freak accident that my family and I are trying to wrap our heads around and we also have 4 girls at home who we still need to care for,” Clark wrote. “This is hard for me to write as im beyond broken into so many pieces if you can please find it in your heart to donate and help our family find and lay my handsome two young boys to rest any amount of support will forever be blessed for our family.”
