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Posted: Feb. 19, 2024 6:02PM, who had been missing for four days in the wilderness beyond Lake Cowichan, messaged, ‘I’m alive, Mom, I love you.'”According to Weld, her 19-year-old son had just started a new job when he got into his small SUV on Wednesday, Feb. 14, to go for a relaxing drive.
“I just knew that something was not right and I knew that he intended to come home. So that night we reported to the police that he was missing,” said Weld. Hundreds of searchers joined in, from trained search and rescue crews to family and friends, and covered vast swaths of Vancouver Island’s backcountry. Drones and a helicopter were launched into the air, and boaters were on the water.“I was thinking nothing good was going to come from our efforts,” said Weld.At 6 p.m. Sunday, a truck full of campers who were driving on Caycuse Main saw a man walking on the remote roadside and stopped to help.
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