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Police successful California accidental they person resumed a hunt from the aerial for the missing British histrion Julian Sands.
Previous efforts were hampered by adverse upwind conditions arsenic the US authorities has been deed by deadly storms.
There has been nary motion of the 65-year-old since helium disappeared connected 13 January.
Mr Sands had been hiking successful the Baldy Bowl country of the San Gabriel Mountains, northbound of Los Angeles, erstwhile helium went missing.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's section tweeted that it would usage a chopper from the California Highway Patrol which carries a instrumentality that tin observe matching "reflective material, electronics, and successful immoderate cases, recognition cards".
It added that utilizing the RECCO instrumentality could assistance constabulary "pinpoint an country wherever we tin absorption our hunt efforts".
UPDATE: The hunt for Julian Sands continues by aerial only. The California Highway Patrol –Valley Division Air Ops from Auburn, California, is presently assisting america successful the hunt utilizing a RECCO instrumentality RECCO - Be Searchable. RECCO exertion tin observe RECCO reflective material,
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On Wednesday, the sheriff's section said a 2nd hiker who had gone missing successful the aforesaid country was recovered alive.
He was named by section media arsenic 75-year-old Los Angeles nonmigratory Jin Chung.
Mr Chung was missing for astir 48 hours, during which clip helium suffered immoderate "weather-related injuries and a limb injury", said the sheriff's department.
For the past respective weeks, section authorities person often enactment retired statements urging hikers to debar hazardous mountainous areas "regardless of precautions taken" saying that the conditions person made it "difficult to deploy resources to that country erstwhile a hiker goes missing".
Avalanches successful the country past week held backmost crushed hunt and rescue efforts for Mr Sands.
One of his brothers, Nick Sands, said he had already said his "goodbyes".
"I person travel to presumption with the information he's gone and for maine that's however I've dealt with it," said Mr Sands, who lives successful the English region of North Yorkshire wherever he, Julian and their 3 different brothers grew up.
Image source, Nick Sands
Image caption,Nick Sands (second from right) shared a photograph of Julian (left) and their brothers Quentin, Robin and Jeremy
His household person thanked the US authorities for their efforts successful trying to find the actor, who has appeared successful dozens of films and TV shows, including the pb relation successful the 1985 romance A Room With A View.
In a statement, the household praised the "heroic hunt teams" who are moving done the hard upwind conditions "on the crushed and successful the aerial to bring Julian home".
Mr Sands lives successful the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They person 2 children.
He was antecedently joined to Sarah Sands, erstwhile exertion of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom helium has a son.
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