By Danielle Wallace | Fox News
A California high school teacher and volunteer search-and-rescue worker – who was separated from his partner Saturday afternoon while looking for a missing hiker – was found dead on the side of a mountain in San Bernardino County near the eastern border of Los Angeles, officials confirmed.
The rescue worker, Timothy Staples, 32, was reported missing after he and his partner on the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue team became separated Saturday afternoon on Mount Baldy, a peak in Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains, the sheriff’s office said. An air search discovered Staples unresponsive on ice and snow. A medic was lowered and determined Staples was dead. The circumstances surrounding his death remained under investigation, the department said.
“Our search and rescue volunteers give us themselves and their time selflessly to try to rescue folks that have become lost. And this is an example of what they are willing to give,” San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a news conference Saturday evening.
It is with heavy hearts we report the tragic death of @WestValleySAR member Timothy Staples. Tim was one of many brave volunteers searching areas of Mt. Baldy for a missing hiker. https://t.co/FzcGLi2sC2 pic.twitter.com/sMEpzkH7tT
— San Bernardino County Sheriff (@sbcountysheriff) December 15, 2019
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