Overview
- A 76-year-old West Barnstable resident, Clare Fearon, was last seen walking near Pine Street on Thursday morning wearing black leggings, a long-sleeve blue shirt and black shoes.
- Local, state and volunteer teams have deployed K9 units, dive teams, ATVs, ground crews and drones to search an area of roughly four square miles that includes train tracks, cranberry bogs and ponds.
- Searchers covered about 1,500 acres on foot and nearly 850 acres by drone between Thursday and Saturday, and more than 60 people have been divided into teams to canvas the area.
- As of Monday, K9 teams have concentrated on Church Street, Parker Road and Pine Street, Massachusetts State Police are conducting aerial searches, and authorities ask residents not to self-deploy or bring pets into search zones.
- Officials are asking anyone with surveillance footage from Thursday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. or other tips to call Barnstable Police at 508-778-3874 because dementia and the rugged Cape Cod terrain raise the urgency of finding her quickly.