#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.