Search for mom-of-four, 45, who disappeared in frozen Alaska river after she swam underneath ice to rescue canine is SUSPENDED

• The seek for mom-of-four Amanda Richmond Rogers, who disappeared on the Eagle River, has been suspended right now
• Amanda and her husband Brian Rogers had been mountaineering the North Fork Eagle River Trailhead on their 18th marriage ceremony anniversary, simply two days earlier than Christmas
• Officials mentioned there are not any additional areas of curiosity which can be accessible to look at the moment and can now solely assessment 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 avoid wasting her drowning canine has been suspended right now.

Amanda Richmond Rogers, 45, was mountaineering north of Anchorage along with her canine Groot and her husband Brian Rogers on December 23 – their 18th marriage ceremony anniversary.

Groot fell by 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 had been ending the seek for Amanda.

Officials mentioned there are not any additional areas of curiosity which can be accessible to look at the moment and can now solely assessment new proof.

Rescue efforts included helicopters, drones, divers, Okay-9 groups, sonar, and remote-operated automobiles.

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 lively 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 inside the water utilizing divers, K9 groups, sonar, and remotely operated automobiles (ROV), search groups have decided that there are not any additional areas of curiosity which can be accessible to look at the moment.

‘If new data or proof is obtained by regulation enforcement, that proof might be reviewed and a dedication on extra 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 had been heading to the household’s home close by for the primary Christmas because the demise of her father earlier this 12 months.

The couple had dropped in on buddies alongside the route of the North Fork Eagle River Trailhead and had been having an ‘wonderful time’ in certainly one of Amanda’s favourite locations, Rogers mentioned.

But their pleasure turned to horror when their beloved Irish Wolfhound toppled by the opening, they usually dashed throughout the ice.

‘I assumed I noticed a flash of a giant white paw beneath the ice,’ Brian, 49, mentioned in an announcement.

‘Before even pondering, I used to be leaping into the water to avoid wasting our canine. I held onto the sting of the ice as I frantically ducked underneath the ice reaching into darkness making an attempt 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 by the ice once more. I rotated and Amanda was entering into the water.

‘I knew from the look on her face she was entering into to avoid wasting our canine.

‘She is an emergency room nurse, educated 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 soar in to avoid wasting ‘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 had 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 children, they had been our household,’ he mentioned.

‘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 pictures and movies on her telephone from our 18 years of marriage and a majority of them of our dogs.’

Brian mentioned he was overwhelmed by the ‘unimaginable’ assist his household has obtained from their group and that they’re ‘blessed to reside in such a particular place’.

‘Amanda was an incredible mom and has raised 4 great 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.