A California mother is pleading with state officials to continue searching for her five-year-old son who was swept away by flooding last month, as she fears they have given up on the search.
Lindsy Doan and her husband Brian have been combing the banks of the Salina River with their own shovels and trying to use their pets as sniffer dogs in the search for their son Kyle.
When Kyle was first swept away during January’s violent floods and storms, the California National Guard deployed a legion of resources, including helicopters, drones, scuba teams, sonar devices and cadaver dogs, to find him, and the governor Gavin Newsome said ‘We won’. I’m not giving up until we find Kyle.
But the Doans fear the promise was empty, as state resources have been withdrawn from the search and the family has been left to orchestrate it on their own.
For the past three weekends, the family has used resources from a GoFundMe page to pay for bulldozers, lunches and fuel for the volunteers who have joined them in their search, but they fear that without the state’s aid being repaid, your search will be in vain. .
Lindsy Doan and Kyle, five years old. The boy was swept away by a flood last month.

Kyle Doan was lost during a flood on his way to kindergarten on January 9.
At least 21 people died in the devastating floods that swept through California in January. Since Kyle’s hasn’t recovered, he’s still officially missing and not part of that count, and Lindsy is hopeful that somehow he’s still alive.
On January 9, he was driving the boy to school when he tried to drive his SUV through what appeared to be a drivable path of flooded water across a two-lane rural highway.
Once it entered the water, the car began to fill with water and it skidded into the San Marcos creek. Lindsy was able to get out of the car and grab onto a tree, but as she was pulling Kyle to safety, they broke free and he was dragged away.
She tried to swim after him, but bystanders who saw her struggling in the water pulled her to safety before she was lost herself.
Since that day, all she’s found of Kyle is one of his shoes, Nike, with a yellow swoosh, and she’s been hoping to see the other one during her searches.
After Kyle first went missing, Governor Newsome said, “Hopefully, miracle of miracles, he’ll be okay,” and even President Joe Biden expressed support for the search.
But the Doans said those promises have faded in recent weeks and authorities have begun to drag their feet.
“We have a feeling that Kyle has now been presented as a cold case,” Brian said. Mercury News. They are no longer being forthcoming. It seems they don’t want to return our calls or texts so soon.
They have been excuses. ‘We are waiting for the weather to get warmer. The water needs to recede further. It’s too cold for the dogs to come out. I understand. You’re tired,” Lindsy wrote in a recent letter asking Newsome for help. But I ask again. If it was your son, when would you give up?

Lindsy and Brian Doan have been organizing the search for their son themselves.

Search team combing waterways for the missing Kyle Doan. His family said official efforts have diminished.

California Gov. Gavin Newsome and President Joe Biden said they would not rest until Kyle’s body was found. His family fears those were empty promises.
Meanwhile, the Doans have dedicated themselves to finding Kyle on their own.
With the help of his 18-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter, they scraped the surface of the riverbeds in the hope that Kyle could emerge from beneath a thin layer of silt.
“We try to do it as close to the ground as possible, in case we hit something because obviously I don’t want to hurt him or damage his body,” Lindsy told the Mercury News. “We’re basically scraping away the sand and dirt.”
They have purchased chainsaws to cut debris, wading boots, kayaks, and have done their best to organize the few volunteers who have arrived to assist them in the search.
Continued rains have also complicated the search, preventing volunteers from joining in and further flooding the rivers and making them unsafe to search.
The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said last week that its “full weight” stayed behind the search and lifted the permitting process normally required to operate excavators on riverbanks, according to the Mercury News.
Despite assurances from officials, Lindsy said she was especially bummed out by her efforts when a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department official told her the search might be futile as Kyle “very well could be in the bay.” of Monterey now.”