By Ishita Srivastava For Dailymail.Com
23:41 28 Dec 2023, up to date 23:44 28 Dec 2023
- The seek for mom-of-four Amanda Richmond Rogers, who disappeared on the Eagle River, has been suspended at the moment
- Amanda and her husband Brian Rogers have been mountaineering the North Fork Eagle River Trailhead on their 18th wedding ceremony anniversary, simply two days earlier than Christmas
- Officials stated there aren’t any additional areas of curiosity which are accessible to go looking presently and can now solely evaluate new proof
- Groot has additionally not been discovered by search groups
The seek for a 45-year-old Alaska mother who disappeared whereas swimming in a frozen river in a determined bid to save lots of her drowning canine has been suspended at the moment.
Amanda Richmond Rogers, 45, was hiking north of Anchorage with her dog Groot and her husband Brian Rogers on December 23 – their 18th wedding ceremony anniversary.
Groot fell via a small gap within the ice of the frozen Eagle River after stopping to take a drink, and first Brian, after which Amanda adopted it into the water.
After 4 days of search, the Alaska Dive Search, Rescue, and Recovery Team and Wildlife Troopers introduced they have been ending the seek for Amanda.
Officials stated there aren’t any additional areas of curiosity which are accessible to go looking presently and can now solely evaluate new proof.
Rescue efforts included helicopters, drones, divers, Ok-9 groups, sonar, and remote-operated autos.
Amanda is now registered as a lacking person with the Anchorage Police Department. The canine has not been discovered.
In an announcement, officers confirmed: ‘The Alaska Wildlife Troopers, in coordination with the Alaska Dive Search, Rescue, and Recovery Team, Anchorage Police Department, and Solstice Search Dogs, have ended the energetic seek for 45-year-old Eagle River resident Amanda Richmond.
‘During 4 days of looking out from the air with drones (sUAS) and helicopters and throughout the water utilizing divers, K9 groups, sonar, and remotely operated autos (ROV), search groups have decided that there aren’t any additional areas of curiosity which are accessible to go looking presently.
‘If new info or proof is obtained by legislation enforcement, that proof might be reviewed and a dedication on further search efforts might be made at the moment. The Anchorage Police Department has entered Richmond as a lacking person, and her subsequent of kin have been notified.
Relatives have been heading to the household’s home close by for the primary Christmas because the demise of her father earlier this yr.
The couple had dropped in on mates alongside the route of the North Fork Eagle River Trailhead and have been having an ‘wonderful time’ in one among Amanda’s favourite locations, Rogers stated.
But their pleasure turned to horror when their beloved Irish Wolfhound toppled via the outlet, and so they dashed throughout the ice.
‘I believed I noticed a flash of a giant white paw beneath the ice,’ Brian, 49, stated in an announcement.
‘Before even pondering, I used to be leaping into the water to save lots of our canine. I held onto the sting of the ice as I frantically ducked underneath the ice reaching into darkness attempting to really feel and seize our canine.
‘I felt nothing. I ran out of breath and jumped out of the opening.
‘I took 4 steps downstream to search for the canine via the ice once more. I rotated and Amanda was moving into the water.
‘I knew from the look on her face she was stepping into to save lots of our canine.
‘She is an emergency room nurse, skilled to assist and save folks. I yelled however doubt she even heard me as she was utterly concentrating on saving the canine.
‘Before I might get again to the opening to try to seize her I might see her swimming downstream underneath the ice after which out of sight.
‘She didn’t bounce in to save lots of ‘only a canine’; it was a member of the family. To me and our 4 boys she died a hero.’
The couple met after they have been each working as medics in Texas however made their everlasting home in Alaska when Brian was deployed there by the Air Force.
‘Amanda liked her dogs practically as a lot as our youngsters, they have been our household,’ he stated.
‘We have a room in our home devoted to the reminiscence of all our earlier dogs. We have tattoos of our canine’s paws.
‘Amanda has round 35 thousand images and movies on her cellphone from our 18 years of marriage and a majority of them of our dogs.’
Brian stated he was overwhelmed by the ‘unimaginable’ assist his household has obtained from their neighborhood and that they’re ‘blessed to stay in such a particular place’.
‘Amanda was an incredible mom and has raised 4 super kids,’ he added.
‘She labored as an emergency room nurse, a demise scene investigator and a pediatric hospice nurse however the job she excelled at was mother.
Amanda is survived by her sons Liam Rogers, 16, Leif Thurmond, 25, August Rogers, 15 and Bodhi Rogers, 10.
