River patrol deputies are searching the Columbia River for a person, presumably the occupant 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.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Coast Guard, Portland fire officials, and members of the Vancouver Fire Department responded, according to the news release.