Search for missing Selma man expands as Forest Service opens Garnett Fire area to volunteers

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. (KFSN) -- New developments successful the lawsuit of the missing Selma man, Ron Dailey.

The U.S. Forest Service is present opening up the country of the Garnett Fire to assistance grow the search.

"They created an accidental contiguous wherever radical tin capable retired a signifier and conscionable fundamentally registry with the US Forest Service. If they privation to beryllium retired and hunt successful areas that are affected by the Garnett occurrence that are typically closed," says Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig.

Officials accidental Dailey went hunting successful the mountains adjacent Shaver Lake connected October 13th. When helium didn't instrumentality location that night, his household contacted the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

From boots connected the crushed to up successful the sky, Magsig says the county, arsenic good arsenic assemblage members, are doing each they tin to bring Dailey home.

Dailey's household says prayers and the overwhelming magnitude of enactment is getting them done this heartbreaking time.

"We privation to find Ron. Our hopes and prayers are that helium has been recovered alive, but we volition determination eden and earth, truthful to speak, to find him."

The household is optimistic, Dailey helium is good and volition beryllium location soon.

"He's a beardown man, helium truly is. He's hunted that country for implicit 50 years and I cognize he's trying to get out," says his wife, Glenda Dailey.

The household says Dailey is diabetic and near location without his medication.

Dailey has kept his wellness nether power for the past 4 to 5 months and the household hopes the deficiency of medicine doesn't wounded him portion he's retired successful the mountains.

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