UPDATE: As of 3:45 p.m. One of the previously-missing individuals was located safe this morning.
Unfortunately, one individual has also been found deceased. Positive identification has not been made yet and this is an ongoing investigation. Further details will be released as soon as identification is made and notification is made to the next of kin.
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By ROD ZOOK
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson fire crews continue to search for one person who is still missing from the Cottonwood Complex fire. A second person who was missing has been found. Crews are searching in an area along Victory Road south of 4th Avenue as of Sunday morning
Fire Chief Steve Beer says they are conducting a grid search for the missing person. The county is part of a special task force that is equipped with GPS and other technology to do a complete and thorough search of a particular area.
“They have equipment to make sure we don’t miss one inch of the area,” Beer said. “They’ll grid it out (search area) using GPS then walk in grid lines and make sure every inch of that grid is covered.”
Beer says that type of search is very systematic.
The same task force was used during the Greensburg tornado to help in recovery efforts there.
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