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High school basketball coach dead, 8-year-old daughter missing after Christmas Eve tragedy
An Oklahoma basketball coach and father of four was found dead, and his 8-year-old daughter remains missing after the family’s car was swept away by raging floodwaters in Texas on Christmas Eve.
Will Robinson, a high school coach from Durant, Oklahoma, and his family were reportedly driving in their SUV on Tuesday morning when the vehicle left the roadway, got caught in a drainage ditch in Sherman, Texas, and was carried away by strong currents, CBS News reported.
All six family members were trapped inside, according to the Sherman Police Department. Robinson did not survive, while four other family members were rescued. The family’s 8-year-old daughter has not been found.
“We are still unsuccessful in our efforts to locate the 8-year-old girl,” Lieutenant Samuel Boyle of the Sherman Police Department told Fox News Digital. “We have identified a 15-mile stretch of creek downstream from where the vehicle stopped, and we have targeted that with the multi-jurisdictional task force.” Sherman police have not yet confirmed the identity of Robinson or his family, Boyle told Fox News Digital.
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Beloved high school coach and father Will Robinson and his family are pictured before their tragic accident on Christmas Eve. (Facebook/Will Robinson)
The search for the young girl, which authorities said had already covered seven miles of creek as of Wednesday, continues into its third day, as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott approved state search and rescue teams to assist in finding the child.
“We are shifting our focus into the county, targeting some possible locations where we have not looked to as yet,” the Sherman Police Department said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon, adding, “Our search will continue until dark today, then we will resume searching again before daylight.”
The cause of Tuesday’s accident was “a combination of a heavy downpour and accumulating of groundwater,” Boyle told Fox News Digital. “Somehow that caused the vehicle to leave the roadway and enter a drainage ditch… and the vehicle got caught in the flooding in the drainage ditch.”
“It’s a tragedy, it really is,” the lieutenant previously told KXII News 12.
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High school basketball coach Will Robinson, who was found dead after floodwaters swept away his family’s SUV on Christmas Eve. (Facebook)
“This is just devastating, and happening on Christmas Eve makes it unbearable,” Robinson’s cousin wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “Will was one of the good ones—a devoted husband and father, a beloved basketball coach, and just a great person…please keep the entire Robinson family in your thoughts and prayers.”
Numerous local and state agencies, including Texas Task Force 2, are working together in the search, police said. Boyle told Fox News Digital that the active search teams are “including canines and boat or watercraft teams.”
“In crises like these, we are blessed to serve a community that so badly wants to help in any way they can. We have dozens of first responders involved in this search, many with extensive training in searching in hazardous conditions,” Sherman police continued in their statement, adding that they currently do not need any additional volunteers.
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Will Robinson and his family are pictured before their tragic accident on Christmas Eve. (Facebook/Will Robinson)
The Sherman Police Department asked anyone with noteworthy information about the case to call their non-emergency phone number at 903-892-7290.
“My recommendation is don’t try and drive through significant standing water. You never know how deep it is, and vehicles are not designed to do that,” Boyle told Fox News Digital in a message to all drivers in wet or flooding conditions. “Once you have lost control of your ability to drive your car, then you are simply at the mercy of the water. And it can be very, very dangerous for occupants of the vehicle.
“If you cannot continue down the roadway because of the large standing water that is going to cross it… stop and find another way around it. Call local police. Call local emergency services, and ask for recommendations if you aren’t familiar with the area.”
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Two brothers are lucky to be alive this holiday season after being caught up in an avalanche that buried one brother under snow.
The avalanche happened on Christmas Eve in the Steep Hollow area of Franklin Basin in Cache County, FOX 13 News Utah reported.
The local TV station said the men were riding snowmobiles when one of them triggered the avalanche.
One of the brothers was carried for about 150 yards prior to being fully buried, according to an incident report from the Utah Avalanche Center.
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The men involved in the avalanche on Christmas Eve were prepared with backcountry travel equipment, according to FOX 13 News Utah. (Utah Avalanche Center)
“He was recovered by his brother, who used a transceiver to get close enough to see a couple of fingers of a gloved hand sticking out of the snow,” the report said.
The elevation of the avalanche was about 9,000 feet. The area where it happened had a “persistent weak layer,” the incident report said.
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The avalanche occurred at an elevation of 9,000 feet, according to a notice from the Utah Avalanche Center. (Utah Avalanche Center)
“I could see his hand, his gloves, kind of poking out, waving,” Braeden Hansen told NBC News about his brother Hunter. “But, by the time I got to him, he was about 2 feet, his head was about 2 feet under the snow.”
“I just cleared the snow away from his head and got his helmet off so that he could start breathing again and then just started digging his body out from there,” he said.
After one man pulled his brother from the snow, the two men doubled up on a snowmobile and headed out of the backcountry. (Utah Avalanche Center)
The two then doubled up and rode out of the backcountry, the avalanche center said.
The brother who was buried sustained minor injuries, according to FOX 13.
“Those guys had a very, very lucky Christmas Eve,” Utah Avalanche Center forecaster Toby Weed told the local station. “No. 1, always access and read the forecast. The forecast that day, it was considerable avalanche as it is the avalanche danger, and that’s actually the same danger that it is here in Logan today.”
Avalanche dangers in the mountains of northern Utah and southeast Idaho are “widespread” heading into the weekend, according to the avalanche center.
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In a rare return to the Southern California coast, a beloved family of orcas made a few star appearances for whale watchers on Friday.
Lucky viewers got to witness a visit from a mother killer whale and three of her offspring around 9 a.m. off Laguna Beach and then again in the afternoon in Newport Beach, according to Davey’s Locker Whale Watching.
A company representative said this particular pod of orcas is well known among California whale-watching enthusiasts as the CA51 pod is “a family of orcas with a reputation for their playful nature interacting with boats.”
Footage from Friday’s sightings shows Star, the mother, who is about 40 years old, her two sons Orion and Bumper – Bumper is purportedly known for his 6-foot tall dorsal fin and playful behavior around boats – and Star’s daughter, Comet.
These killer whales were last seen on Dec. 15 about 17 miles off the Orange County coast, according to Davey’s Locker Whale Watching, but, before then, the CA51 pod hadn’t been seen locally in around six years.
Experts said the members of this family are also referred to as ‘transient’ orcas, meaning they cover a large range between southeast Alaska to the Mexico border.
“Lucky passengers aboard our whale watching boats were thrilled to see this family of orcas again today, as they used to be one of the most frequently-sighted killer whale pods in Southern California between 2012-2018, but now, we don’t encounter them much at all,” said a company representative in a release.
Although a clear reason for their change of routine is not yet known, experts said the pod’s diet leads them to wherever seals and sea lions are plentiful.
Three people were transported to a Los Angeles County hospital with major injuries Friday morning after they were involved in a fiery crash on the Angeles Forest Highway.
The crash happened before 11 a.m. and involved at least two vehicles, one of which was a Maserati sports car.
First responders found the Maserati crashed on the side of the road with flames engulfing the vehicle. Firefighters were able to knock down the fire around 11:15 a.m. to rescue the injured patients.
According to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, three people were transported from the scene, including one person in critical condition.
Video from Sky 5 showed the scorched car on the side of the roadway where it apparently hit the hillside. A second vehicle with major damage, a Toyota van, was being loaded onto a flatbed, with California Highway Patrol officials stating that the vehicle was driven by an innocent bystander traveling in the opposite direction of the Maserati.
A third vehicle, which appeared to be a Porsche, was parked near the side of the road not far from the scene of the crash.
Authorities are investigating the possibility that the Maserati and the Porsche were street racing in the moments leading up to the violent crash.
The crash remains under investigation and the roadway was closed to through-traffic for over an hour as crews cleaned debris from the scene. By 12:20 p.m., all lanes of the roadway were reopened to traffic, according to the CHP incident log.
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