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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Mark Kismet, a 50-year-old teacher, has been missing since June 6. He was past seen walking successful the Harlan Ranch vicinity adjacent Shepard and Locan Avenues wearing a achromatic t-shirt and bluish jeans.
His wife, Angela Collins-Kismet, is the 1 who reported him missing.
"I came home, and my daughters didn't cognize wherever helium was. All of his worldly was astatine home, but helium wasn't astatine home," she said.
Mark does walk clip outdoors, but Angela says the disappearance is unusual.
"He's known to locomotion astir the vicinity and everything, but it's conscionable dissimilar him to permission without his wallet, his telephone oregon thing of that nature," she explained.
Angela says that due to the fact that of Mark's occupation arsenic an educator, the symptom of his disappearance is not conscionable being felt by their family, but the full community.
"He's a precise benignant person. He's, you know, helium was a teacher. He's the archetypal 1 to assistance somebody. And close present helium needs help,” she said.
Despite having to walk Father's Day and their wedding day without him, Angela wants to stay beardown for their 2 daughters.
"I'm conscionable trying to ticker retired for their, you know, privateness and enactment affirmative for them. And hopefully we tin bring their dada home," she said. "It's conscionable truly hard to spell done those days without him and not cognize wherever helium is."
Sgt. Abby Padgett with the Clovis Police Department says detectives are utilizing exertion and drones to hunt aggregate places successful Fresno County, on with combing done tips and information.
"Most of the time, we usage compartment phones oregon vehicles to way radical oregon to assistance find their location. He does not person a compartment telephone with him, and helium was past seen walking. So, nary of those resources are available," she explained. "We're checking foothill areas, immoderate areas adjacent bodies of water. It is the summertime. A batch of radical bash spell to the mountains for a retreat oregon anything. So, we are checking into those leads arsenic good arsenic thing other that pops up with imaginable sightings oregon different accusation that's developed done household members and done our nationalist tips."
Clovis Police accidental if you spot him oregon cognize wherever helium could be, telephone their non-emergency line.
"Obviously, his household is missing him. We're going to bash everything we tin to find him. Our anticipation is that that volition beryllium soon, and we're conscionable going to support searching. So, we inquire for the community's help. Any accusation that they could assistance us, we tin travel those leads and hopefully that volition pb to uncovering him," Padgett said.
