Dramatic search for 13 missing hikers trapped on California wildfire mountain

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By Noa Halff For Dailymail.Com

Published: 10:44 EDT, 8 July 2024 | Updated: 10:52 EDT, 8 July 2024

A hopeless hunt is underway for 13 young hikers who person vanished successful nan bosom of a raging wildfire successful California.

The group, aged betwixt 16 and 20, is believed to beryllium trapped location wrong nan inferno's reach, authorities revealed successful a chilling early greeting update.

Placer County Sheriff's Office confirmed astatine 6:30am that their Search and Rescue squad has been scrambled to find nan missing teens and young adults.

Officials person besides deployed a chopper to comb nan smoke-filled terrain from supra successful a hopeless bid to find nan mislaid hikers. 

A hopeless hunt is underway for 13 young hikers who person vanished successful nan bosom of a raging wildfire successful California

The group, aged betwixt 16 and 20, is believed to beryllium trapped location wrong nan inferno's reach, authorities revealed successful a chilling early greeting update

Officials person besides deployed a chopper to comb nan smoke-filled terrain from supra successful a hopeless bid to find nan mislaid hikers

'We’ve identified 13 missing hikers wrong nan occurrence zone,' a sheriff's spokesperson announced connected X. 'The group is believed to beryllium together.'

'Placer County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue is retired moving to find them. Our chopper will besides beryllium up searching. We’ll proceed to update arsenic nan hunt continues.'

The communicative is developing.

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