{"id":101116,"date":"2017-05-06T04:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T08:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101116"},"modified":"2017-05-06T04:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T08:02:52","slug":"search-on-for-b-c-fire-chief-who-may-have-been-swept-away-in-swollen-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/06\/search-on-for-b-c-fire-chief-who-may-have-been-swept-away-in-swollen-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Search on for B.C. fire chief who may have been swept away in swollen creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_101117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101117\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cache_Creek_British_Columbia_Location.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101117\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cache_Creek_British_Columbia_Location.png\" alt=\"The RCMP says the fire chief of Cache Creek in British Columbia's Interior is missing and may have been swept away in a swollen creek. (Photo by No machine-readable author provided. Qyd assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain]_)\" width=\"713\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cache_Creek_British_Columbia_Location.png 713w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cache_Creek_British_Columbia_Location-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The RCMP says the fire chief of Cache Creek in British Columbia&#8217;s Interior is missing and may have been swept away in a swollen creek. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ACache_Creek%2C_British_Columbia_Location.png\">No machine-readable author provided. <\/a>Qyd assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain]_)<\/figcaption><\/figure>CACHE CREEK, B.C. \u2014 The RCMP says the fire chief of Cache Creek in British Columbia&#8217;s Interior is missing and may have been swept away in a swollen creek.<\/p>\n<p>Searchers, including the Kamloops Search and Rescue team, a helicopter, a swift-water rescue team, a canine unit and dozens of volunteers are looking for Clayton Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP say the 59-year-old man went missing early Friday while checking water levels for Cache Creek and he was last seen near the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Cassidy&#8217;s vehicle was also found near the creek.<\/p>\n<p>Kamloops Search and Rescue manager Alan Hobler that an aerial search was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe searched for several hours by helicopter and now we are focusing more on shore and land based searching,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy was given a Medal of Good Citizenship by the B.C. government last year for his efforts helping Cache Creek residents during a devastating flood in May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Premier Christy Clark said Cassidy is one of those people who \u201cgo above and beyond\u201d in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody had to ask Clayton Cassidy to take a leading role after a devastating flood \u2014 he simply stepped up, and made a difference when it was needed most,\u201d she said in a statement recognizing his award.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy is a long-time member of the community&#8217;s 25-member volunteer fire department, having served for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>The province issued a special information bulletin on Friday, urging caution in B.C.&#8217;s southern and central Interior regions because increased snowmelt and higher than normal rain levels are pushing rivers and creeks over their banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CACHE CREEK, B.C. \u2014 The RCMP says the fire chief of Cache Creek in British Columbia&#8217;s Interior is missing and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[18745,18746],"class_list":["post-101116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-cache-creek","tag-clayton-cassidy","mauthors-httpscommons-wikimedia-orgwikifilecache_creek_british_columbia_location-png"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}