Image Credit: SUBMITTED/COSAR May 25, 2021 - 11:21 AM After one of the longest search efforts in Central Okanagan Search and Rescue team’s history, the volunteer organization has been ordered by the RCMP to stand down. The search for Kamloops firefighter Capt. Brian Lannon went on for nine days in Okanagan Lake near the Bennett bridge. “Not good,” search manager Duane Tresnich told iNFOnews.ca today, May 25, when asked how it felt to have to walk away after all that time. “We all put a lot of hours in,” he said. “We wanted to bring him home. It’s disappointing. It’s not a good feeling but we did the best that we could.”
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Presumed drowned Kelowna diver identified as Kamloops firefighter - Kelowna News
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Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Family of Brian Lannon May 18, 2021 - 1:46 PM The 53-year-old man who went missing Saturday while diving Okanagan Lake, and is now presumed drowned, has been identified as a Kamloops firefighter Brian Lannon. Brian and his wife of 20 years, Jennifer Cook, were in Kelowna on Saturday, May 15 for Brian to join his recreational dive partner and two local Kelowna divers to do a recreational dive from City Park near the W. R. Bennett bridge, family friend Jamie Chase said in a statement released this afternoon, May 18. They completed a dive in the morning without incident. During their second dive of the day, Brian became separated from his diving partner and the dive team lost contact with him. When it became apparent that he had not resurfaced, his dive team began searching with the assistance of some local boaters and called for emergency response, the statement reads.