Dawson Creek comes together to search for 15-year-old Denny Poole
Matt Meuse | CBC News | Posted: April 30, 2016 5:27 AM | Last Updated: April 30, 2016
Volunteers will comb the area between Fort St. John and Dawson Creek on Saturday
March 11 was the last day Alisha Poole saw her brother Denny.
He told his grandmother he would be spending the night at a friend's, and his sister hasn't seen him since then.
RCMP have scoured the area between Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, in northern B.C., but their helicopters and dogs have so far found nothing.
Alisha Poole hopes a volunteer search party this weekend will turn up some sign of her brother.
"It's surreal. We don't even know what to think," she told Radio West host Audrey McKinnon.
"It's like you're sleeping and you're having a really bad nightmare and you're going to wake up the next morning and he's going to be there."
Poole said such a disappearance is very out of character for her brother, and described him as generally being in constant contact with his family.
Search planned for Saturday
Sharla Bruun, who has worked with the Poole family through Aboriginal Family Services since Denny was a young child, said the community has stepped up to assist in the search, including donations of food and water.
"We've had fantastic community support," she said. "Just all of a sudden, boom, it's there."
The search party will meet Saturday morning at 11 a.m. on the north side of the Kiskatinaw River bridge and conduct a coordinated search of the area from which Denny is believed to have gone missing.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Denny is asked to contact the RCMP.
With files from CBC's Radio West.