Search for senior with dementia

Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (CIOSAR) team members were involved in the hunt for a missing senior with dementia in Kelowna.

Ed Henczel from the group said they were contacted by RCMP for assistance just before 10 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 8).

“Fifteen COSAR volunteers responded and helped search the downtown core looking for the 86-year-old in her mobility scooter. A witness indicated seeing the subject around 10 p.m on Ellis Street, so searchers focused on the area between Kelowna General Hospital, Knox Mountain, Gordon Drive and Okanagan Lake.”

He said shortly after 2 a.m. a desk clerk at a hotel on Gordon Drive called RCMP and reported that the subject was in the lobby.

Searchers returned home by 3:30 a.m.