Authorities are still searching for the body of actress Naya Rivera, who is believed to have drowned while boating with her young son on Lake Piru in Ventura County.
has drawn an enormous amount of interest from the public, prompting officials to warn people not to try to assist with the efforts.
That came after the Sheriff’s Department received multiple phone calls, and saw social media posts, that people were organizing independent search parties, Buschow said.“We’re just cautioning people against it,” he said. “I think anybody that goes up there will quickly realize it’s not a friendly environment to be out there searching.”
He noted that the lake sat in a steep canyon and was surrounded by inhospitable terrain, and that temperatures were already in the 90s Sunday morning and set to rise as the day went on. Most people lack the proper training and equipment to carry out such a search, and they don’t adhere to the methodical protocols used by authorities, he said.
“The concern, and it’s happened before, is where people show up and go off on their own, then get themselves into trouble, whether it’s heat exhaustion or dehydration … and now we have to deviate resources away from searching to rescuing them,” he said. “They become more part of the problem than part of the solution, and that’s what we don’t want.”
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