‘It’s just terrible not knowing’: Family of missing B.C. man not giving up hope

A antheral remains missing successful Coquitlam, B.C., connected Thursday but his household has not fixed up hope.

Robert Belding‘s household and friends person been tirelessly looking for immoderate motion of him aft helium was past seen connected Sunday.

“So I’m trying to enactment analytical and enactment affirmative and enactment conscionable focused connected the task of uncovering him,” girl Jessica Belding said.

“But of course, it’s hard. It’s conscionable a roller coaster of emotions.”

Jessica said her dada and uncle were astatine a friend’s place, helping cleanable up a flooded basement owed to the atmospheric river, erstwhile her dada went to instrumentality the canine retired for a washroom break.

He has not been seen since but the canine was recovered downstream, acold and bedewed but alive.

“The archetypal night, it conscionable seemed so, like, not real, that I was beauteous numb to it,” Jessica said.

Search and rescue officials said a witnesser told them they saw Belding with the dog.

“He seemingly was going to effort to rescue a canine that had gone into the water,” Coquitlam Search and Rescue manager Ian MacDonald told Global News.

“Now, that’s astir arsenic soon arsenic helium went in. My knowing is that helium was swept away.”

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Jessica said her dada is beardown and they are keeping up anticipation helium is inactive going to beryllium found.

With much rainfall expected connected the weekend, Search and Rescue crews accidental swiftwater teams are anticipated to beryllium deployed connected Friday.

“If we suffer this opportunity, we whitethorn not person it backmost until, who knows, adjacent spring,” MacDonald said.

The household is asking for anyone successful the country to support their eyes unfastened for him oregon immoderate clues.

“It’s conscionable unspeakable not knowing wherever your loved 1 is,” Jessica said. “And I truly don’t privation this connected anyone.”