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According to the Trinity County Sheriff's Office, the body of Daniel Komins, an EMT and volunteer with Blue Lake Fire, was located after a California Highway Patrol helicopter crew spotted what appeared to be a backpack and search efforts narrowed in on the area.
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According to the release, a preliminary investigation indicates that he "may have fallen in the steep and rocky terrain."
"Although this was not the outcome that was wanted, the Trinity County Sheriff's Office as well as family members of Komins, wanted to thank the Search and Rescue members as well as all other volunteers, for assisting in bringing Daniel Komins home," the release states.
Read the Trinity County Sheriff's Office release below:The Search and Rescue efforts pertaining to Daniel Komins continued throughout the day of August 18, 2019.
The twelve Search and Rescue teams, referenced in previous press releases, began searching their respective areas around first light.
During the late morning, a California Highway Patrol helicopter observed what appeared to be a backpack. The backpack had been off trail, between L Lake and Mirror Lake.
Ground search teams, who were already near the area, went to the location of the backpack in an effort to recover it. The backpack was recovered and later determined to have belonged to Komins.
Search and Rescue members continued to search the area near the backpack, and later located Komins, who was deceased.
Komins' remains were flown from the area via helicopter.
A preliminary investigation appears to indicate that Komins may have fallen in the steep and rocky terrain.
Although this was not the outcome that was wanted, the Trinity County Sheriff's Office as well as family members of Komins, wanted to thank the Search and Rescue members as well as all other volunteers, for assisting in bringing Daniel Komins home.
Once additional information is obtained, further press releases shall be issued.
Persons of Interest:
Daniel Komins, Date of Birth: April 12, 1985
Agencies involved:
Trinity County Sheriff's Office
Trinity County Search and Rescue
Trinity County Sheriff's Auxiliary
Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit
Butte County Search and Rescue
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
California Highway Patrol
California National Guard
Contra Costa County Search and Rescue
Marin County Search and Rescue
Civil Air Patrol
Shasta County Search and Rescue
United States Forest Service
At around 9:17pm while driving on highway 62 we saw a long strip of light in the sky. We were able to drive up to it and get under it. It appeared to be about 6 feet long and did not seem to make any noise. We witness it for over 30 minutes and multiple other cars stopped and came over to watch. At times it was very still even though it was windy and would climb straight up in the sky. I am not sure if this was a light bar on a kite or a drone. There are power lines around where it was in the sky so if it was a kite it would seem dangerous to fly it at night in that area. It started to move away from us and climb quickly so we tried to get a better shot of it from another street and it appeared to come straight down in the middle of open desert and turn off. Other people that stopped to look and myself went out into the desert to try and find it but were unsuccessful. Any information or guesses would be greatly appreciated as I would like to know what we saw in the sky tonight.
Comment: We understand why people reach for the 'UFO' explanation - these things seem like they're intelligently-controlled. But it's more likely they're doing that spiralling motion because of some locally-generated electromagnetic field distortion. Which, of course, still doesn't really explain quite what they are or where they come from (it's difficult to believe, for example, that they're meteors from outer space!)...
In any event, this is the third time we've come across such a report about a 'looping fireball' at the same general location: in or near the town of Northampton in the English Midlands.
Back in June 2014, this happened:
Mysterious dancing fireball captured on camera in Northampton, UK
Then in 2015 this happened (in Brackley, about 15kms from Northampton):
There must be something about the location that facilitates this phenomenon. Truly astounding...
Elsewhere in England, this happened in Wiltshire at around 8pm on 8 September 2018: