#search-efforts

#search-efforts

Most nights for the last year, Darlene Hamilton slept four hours and woke at about 4.30am. She wanted to sleep, but she could not. Instead the 66-year-old started the day at her Altadena rental home in morning darkness with a familiar routine, scouring through websites of local humane societies and lost animal groups in search of two familiar little faces.

Authorities in Kerr County plan to drain one flood-swollen lake while searching for about 100 missing individuals since catastrophic flooding occurred on July 4.

The Pino family established a fundraiser at gofundme.com/f/bring-brandon-home-a-mothers-plea to help finance the search, promising to search nonstop until he is found.

"Preliminary indications are that the boy was quickly pulled by the current into the Merrimack River," police said Sunday.