CLEARLAKE — Search-and-rescue officials were back in Clear Lake looking for a possible missing person Wednesday afternoon, several hours after the body of a lost 9-year-old girl was found in a lake tributary.
The second operation came in the wake of a running boat being found near the shore in Jago Bay Tuesday evening, Lake County Sheriff”s Office (LCSO) Lt. Steve Brooks said.
Somebody reported seeing the unmanned boat idling in weeds near Jago Bay around 7 p.m. Tuesday, about seven hours after noticing it tied up in another area of the bay, Brooks said.
The reporting party knew the boat owner, but it was not immediately clear whether the boater was aboard prior to the vessel getting caught in the weeds, the lieutenant added.
Requests to the LCSO for updates on the search for the potentially overboard boater were not returned as of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The command post for the Jago Bay search-and-rescue operation was Redbud Park in Clearlake, a couple miles away from where officials and volunteers gathered during the unrelated three-day search for Mikaela Lynch, 9, who went missing from her family”s Highlands Harbor vacation home Sunday afternoon.
Some of the outside agencies responding to Lynch search — including San Francisco Police and sheriff”s officials from El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento counties — assisted in the Jago Bay search, Brooks said.
Rescue officials diverted to Redbud Park to launch boats and other watercrafts into Clear Lake about 1 1/2 hours after the announcement that Lynch”s body was found in Cache Creek near Highlands Harbor late Wednesday morning.
