Continuing the search and rescue for missing Selma man

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Missing successful the mountains...

"We conscionable wanna find him, marque definite he's OK. That's astir each we're doing up here," said Jimmy Malloenee, a puerility person of Ron Dailey.

Dailey has been missing since Monday adjacent Shaver Lake.

"He knows his mode astir here. So, it don't marque sense," said Malloenee.

He and Randy Mattos drove up to Shaver Lake from Caruthers to assistance scan the country for their longtime friend.

"I wanted to springiness the household immoderate support. You know, it's a lonely feeling," said Mattos.

Authorities said Dailey drove up to the Shaver Lake country for a time of hunting. When helium didn't instrumentality location that night, his household alerted the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

Officials accidental it's been similar trying to find a needle successful a haystack.

"Some of the hunt country is successful the snow, immoderate of the hunt country is retired of the snow. So, it takes antithetic kinds of instrumentality to spell to those antithetic areas," said Fresno County Sergeant Scott Weishaar.

More than 30 radical from Kern and Madera County Sheriff's Offices arsenic good arsenic hunt and rescue volunteers were deployed connected Friday.

With the hunt present expanding to astir 280 quadrate miles and dozens of volunteers wanting to help, Weishaar wants radical to know, it's important to travel the sheriff's bureau pb with this ongoing hunt done the wilderness.

"Sometimes idiosyncratic tin travel up with bully intentions to assistance successful the search, but astatine the aforesaid clip they mightiness beryllium hurting america due to the fact that they're laying tracks. So, they're walking done an country looking portion we whitethorn spot those 2 tracks and deliberation "well is that our missing person?" said Weishaar.

Dailey's household said- helium is diabetic and did not instrumentality his medicine with him - adding different furniture of urgency to this search.

If you've seen thing that could assistance find Dailey, you're encouraged to interaction the Fresno County sheriff's office.

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