Authorities Searching for At-Risk Petaluma Woman Missing Since Tuesday - NBC Bay Area

As temperatures proceed to dip crossed the region, authorities said Wednesday they person distributed hundreds of fliers and are utilizing a K-9 tracking dog, thermal imaging by aircraft, and drones to hunt for an at-risk Petaluma pistillate missing since Tuesday.

Virginia Fuquay, 68, was seen astir 3:30 p.m. Tuesday leaving a location successful the 1400 artifact of Mountain View Avenue, Petaluma constabulary said.

She was wearing a reddish short-sleeved blouse without a jacket, achromatic pants and orangish slip-on shoes. Fuquay whitethorn person dementia, and is described arsenic Filipino, 5 feet tall, weighing astir 90 pounds, with gray/brown hair. Authorities don't deliberation she is carrying a mobile telephone oregon purse.

Petaluma constabulary are asking residents to cheque cars, sheds and garages wherever she whitethorn person sought shelter.

A nonmigratory told authorities they spoke to Fuquay astir 5 p.m. Tuesday connected Mountain View Avenue, adjacent Cochrane Way. Fuquay seemingly asked however to find a autobus to Suisun City.

Investigators besides recovered surveillance video of Fuquay connected Petaluma Boulevard South, adjacent H Street, astatine 5:45 p.m. She was walking by herself northbound connected the westbound broadside of the road.

Police person checked each autobus stops and contacted autobus companies looking for leads. There was a study that a pistillate matching her statement was seen connected McNear Avenue astatine Mission Drive astir 8 a.m. Wednesday.

The California Highway Patrol airplane utilized a thermal imaging instrumentality successful the search, and the Petaluma Fire Department utilized its rescue vessel to hunt the Petaluma River, adjacent Petaluma Blvd South, constabulary said.

Search teams person searched ample areas of southwest Petaluma and a imaginable 2nd residence for Fuquay successful San Rafael.

The constabulary section has issued a Silver Alert, distributed hundreds of fliers successful downtown Petaluma, and sent retired missing idiosyncratic bulletins to allied instrumentality enforcement agencies.

About 8 a.m. Wednesday, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team began a coordinated hunt starting successful the 1400 artifact of Mountain View Avenue, and the sheriff besides provided its drone and dual-purpose motorcycle teams.

Police impulse anyone who sees Fuquay to interaction Petaluma Police Department Dispatch halfway astatine (707) 778-4372.