This year is shaping up to be the lightest year of callouts for Kamloops Search and Rescue in three years.

Spokesperson Jenn Stahn says there have only been two callouts where KSAR has been needed for multiple days.

“We’ve still got about six weeks left [in 2019], definitely not counting anything out yet. But we’ve had 39 tasks that we’ve been called out to. Our five-year average for Kamloops Search and Rescue is 36. So we are above the five-year average, but the last two years, we’re behind at the moment.”

Stahn says the most significant event by far, in terms of days out searching, was the search for missing cowboy Ben Tyner in the Nicola Valley, who disappeared in late January. Police said two months later that criminality was likely involved in his disappearance, but nearly 10 months later and Tyner is still deemed missing.

The only other callout lasting more than one day so far this year has been the search for Falkland man Bjorne Collnes in the Monte Lake area, who also remains missing.

Stahn also says KSAR is sitting at about 2,300 task hours right now for the year, compared to 3,500 task hours for all of 2018.