UPDATE: The Associated Press reported that the Coast Guard has ended a search of the Columbia River near Portland after a small fishing boat was found adrift with no one on board. But authorities are asking boaters in the area to keep an eye out for signs of a possible victim.
River patrol deputies were searching the Columbia River for a person, presumably the owner of a boat found floating down the river this morning with no one on board.
Emergency crews were dispatched around 6 a.m. to a report of boater in distress, according to 911 dispatcher logs kept by the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency. The empty boat was retrieved and brought to the Chinook Landing Marine Park on the Oregon side of the river, south of Camas, according to a news release from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
A search commenced for a person in the water, the sheriff’s office said. As of 3 p.m. today, nobody had been found, but search efforts continued.
