Rescuers search for 15 missing hikers in California.............Here is report and link.From Fox News..not good.... gst Authorities are searching early Monday for at least 15 hikers from a church group who never returned from a weekend trek in a Southern California nature preserve.
The group of adults and teens ranging in age from 14 to 36 years old set out in the Eaton Canyon Natural Area on Sunday morning and were expected to return by the evening. A member of the group called the Altadena sheriff's station at 9:40 p.m. saying they were lost, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Deputy Dan Paige. The caller did not mention any injuries, he said.
“They all have backpacks with food, water, a short piece of rope and extra clothing," Paige told FoxNews.com. "So some of them are pretty well prepared."
The group had planned to repel from a nearby waterfall, which they had done previously, Paige said.
"As far as we know, they're not even off-track," he said. "There's numerous trails up there."
Crews searched through the night and were joined by reinforcements at daybreak. A helicopter crew was standing by but couldn't fly because of early-morning fog, Paige said.
Members of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Huntington Park said the hikers have gone out as a group on 3-mile treks before. They had planned to go rappelling at canyon waterfalls.
"We're assuming that they got tired and they stopped," Wendolyn Ortiz told KABC-TV.
Eaton Canyon, a popular hiking spot in the Angeles National Forest at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, is roughly 15 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
FoxNews.com's Joshua Rhett Miller and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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