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Search goes on
By CARL CLUTCHEY
Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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Searchers clung to hope Wednesday that a 20-year-old Toronto woman has survived her ordeal in dense bush at Rainbow Falls Provincial Park.
Those experienced in search and rescue operations said Christina Calayaca‘s chances of survival remained good, even though she reportedly lacked the camping gear to withstand two nights in the bush.
“It‘s a hard one to answer, but given the (warm) weather we‘ve had, I would say (someone could last) several days at minimum,” said Jason Hughes, president of the Thunder Bay-based Civilian Air Search and Rescue Association.
“We‘re still very optimistic.”
Hughes was up in a four-seater plane Tuesday night looking for signs of Calayaca.
From a height of about 150 metres, the challenges facing searchers in the rugged park overlooking Lake Superior became apparent: most of the landscape consists of dense bush, said Hughes.
“Her best course of action would be to find a clearing and make herself visible,” said Hughes. “But sometimes people in that situation panic and just try to keep walking.”
The Ontario Provincial Police is co-ordinating an intensive air and ground search, which began Monday after Calayaca failed to return to her campsite following an early-morning jog.
Police K9 units, a helicopter and marine unit, along with more emergency response team members were on their way Wednesday to the Rossport-area park.
Fire department search and rescue teams from Terrace Bay, Schreiber and Marathon are also assisting.
Calayaca is described as five feet two inches tall and about 125 pounds. Of Asian descent and dark-skinned, she was last seen wearing a blue-hooded sweatshirt over a maroon and purple striped shirt, along with black pants and running shoes.
Posters with Calayaca‘s photograph began appearing in nearby Schreiber on Wednesday.
Anyone with information is asked to call the OPP regional communications centre at 888-310-1122.
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