Search for kids missing from Pictou County home resumes this weekend
Lilly and Jack Sullivan were reported missing on May 2
Colchester Ground Search and Rescue confirmed to CBC News on Friday that it is resuming the search for two kids missing from their home in rural Pictou County since May 2.
Searchers will scour the woods around Lansdowne Station for Lilly and Jack Sullivan beginning Saturday morning.
Kevin MacLean, the president of Colchester Ground Search and Rescue, said the RCMP asked him to get his volunteers back together.
In a news release on Friday afternoon, Nova Scotia RCMP confirmed ground and air search efforts are planned for Saturday.
"Searchers from ground search and rescue teams, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, and the RCMP will focus on specific areas around Gairloch Rd. in an effort to locate Lilly and Jack and advance the investigation," police said in a news release.
"This search follows a large-scale air and ground search of 5.5 square kilometres of heavily wooded, rural terrain in the Gairloch Rd. area that began on May 2. On May 7, the search was scaled back in favour of more specific searches."
The RCMP said its underwater recovery team "scoured bodies of water" around Lansdowne Station on May 8 and 9, but it didn't uncover any evidence.
"We continue to ask that the public avoid the search area to allow trained searchers to do their work," the RCMP said.
MacLean said he's not sure how many volunteers will be involved with the search on Saturday, but said his team and others from the Strait area and Pictou County will participate.
MacLean said Friday he was figuring out where searchers would look this weekend.
"It's more than likely to be recovery," he said.
MacLean said the search would focus on areas that didn't get covered "as well as the search teams would have liked to have seen them covered before."
With files from Nicola Seguin