Authorities and family are holding out hope that 5-year-old Kyle Doan can be found after he was swept away by floodwaters as a powerful storm walloped California.
Authorities are still calling the efforts an"active search" despite the 5-year-old boy being missing for over 24-hours, with authorities saying that,"it's always a rescue operation until the child is found."
"We always have hope, and we never want to take that hope away from the parents of the child either" San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tony Cipolla told Fox News Digital. People look on as a tow truck pulls a car out of a flooded intersection on January 04, 2023 in Mill Valley, California.
Law enforcement cautioned well-wishing neighbors and residents from joining in on the search efforts, saying,"The public is strongly cautioned not to conduct self-initiated searches and put themselves in harms way and become a victim requiring resources that would otherwise be used for searching." On Monday, the boy's mother was driving a white truck when it became stranded in floodwaters just before 8 a.m. near Paso Robles, according to Tom Swanson, assistant chief of the Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department.
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